Aperture Synthesis: Methods and Applications to Optical Astronomy Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library Saha, Swapan Kumar 1st Edition., 2011, XXIV, 468 p. 185 illus. ISBN 978-1-4419-5709-2 About this textbook:     Discusses the fundamentals of electromagnetic fields, wave optics, interference, diffraction, and imaging extensively     Deals with the fundamentals of stellar interferometry     Includes more than…

A World Class Scientist and His Work Shobhit Mahajan KARIAMANIKKAM SRINIVASA KRISHNAN: HIS LIFE AND WORK By D.C.V. Mallik & S. Chatterjee University Press, Hyderabad, 2012, pp. 461, Rs. 895.00 One of the curious paradoxes of the sociology of science concerns the flowering of world class science in India in the early decades of the…

An Introduction to Waves and Oscillations in the Sun Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library A. Satya Narayanan, 2013, XII, 222 p. 62 illus. ISBN 978-1-4614-4400-8 About this book Presents the theoretical studies pertaining to the wave motions and vibrations of the Sun Presents the observational signatures of oscillations, as well as simulation results and nonlinear…

Dear Professor Roy,   My dear friend, Atri Mukhopadhyay, sent me your email address since I could not get it from any other source. I wanted to get in touch with you after Mr Devanath of Universities Press, Hyderabad told me that you were kind enough to review our (Chatterjee’s and mine) book on K…

Worlds Beyond Our Own: The Search for Habitable Planets                  Series: Astronomers’ Universe Sengupta, Sujan 2015, XVI, 154 p. 29 illus., 24 illus. in color. ISBN 978-3-319-09894-4   About this book Presents the essential conditions required for the formation and evolution of life and on which planets these may be met Provides an understanding of how…

Waves and Oscillations in Nature: An Introduction By A Satya Narayanan, Swapan K Saha CRC Press – 2015 – 544 pages About this Book: Waves and oscillations are found in large scales (galactic) and microscopic scales (neutrino) in nature. Their dynamics and behavior heavily depend on the type of medium through which they propagate. Waves…