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Principles of Optics
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<p><i>Principles of Optics</i>, colloquially known as <i>Born and Wolf</i>, is an optics textbook written by <a href="/facts/Max_Born/6VnUDWhA">Max Born</a> and <a href="/facts/Emil_Wolf/QR69Lp3Y">Emil Wolf</a> that was initially published in 1959 by <a href="/facts/Pergamon_Press/qe6ctSTB">Pergamon Press</a>. After going through six editions with Pergamon Press, the book was transferred to <a href="/facts/Cambridge_University_Press/fgEBSSRq">Cambridge University Press</a> who issued an expanded seventh edition in 1999. A 60th anniversary edition was published in 2019 with a foreword by Sir <a href="/facts/Peter_Knight_(physicist)/r8WRfoC6">Peter Knight</a>. It is considered a <a href="/facts/Classic_book/fRqsAu5D">classic science book</a> and one of the most influential optics books of the twentieth century. </p>