- Kerson Huang
Kerson Huang (zh-cp|c=黃克孫|p=Huáng Kèsūn) (born in
Nanning ,China , 1928) grew up inManila ,Philippines , and is currently Professor ofPhysics Emeritus atMIT .His name is more familiar to Chinese readers as the translator of the "Rubaiyat" of
Omar Khayyám . Huang adapted Edward Fitzgerald's famous adaptation into classical Chinese verse when he was a young postgraduate of physics. The book (zh-t|1=魯拜集) had been out-of-print for years, but was reprinted inTaiwan in 1989.As a scientist, he published books about
statistical physics . With his wife Rosemary, he co-translatedI Ching into English. The book was published in 1984.Selected publications
* "Lectures on Statistical Physics and Protein Folding" (World Scientific, 2005), ISBN 981-256-143-9
* "Introduction to Statistical Physics" (Taylor & Francis, 2001), ISBN 0-7484-0941-6
* "Quantum Field Theory: From Operators to Path Integrals" (New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1998), ISBN 0-471-14120-8
* "Quarks, Leptons and Gauge Fields" (World Scientific, 1992), ISBN 981-02-0659-3
* "I Ching, the Oracle" (World Scientific, 1984), ISBN 9971-966-25-5
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