Optical Mineralogy

本教科書以非常簡單、系統且全面的方式介紹了光學礦物學的基本概念和應用。全書分為兩個部分：第一部分探討理論和技術，第二部分則描述常見礦物的光學性質。書中以清晰的方式撰寫，使學生能夠理解光學概念背後的實現及用於獲取礦物晶體內部資訊的方法。所有主題的基本原理和相關推導都以簡單且全面的方式討論，以幫助學生在光學礦物學的基礎上打下堅實的基礎。書中的關鍵特點包括插圖、範例以及每章結尾的問題，為學生提供光學礦物學的實用見解。這本書對於修習光學入門課程以表徵岩石礦物的學生非常有幫助。

Pramod Kumar Verma, a professor(Retd.) of Geology at the University of Delhi, received his Ph.D. in Geology from Harvard University, USA, in 1973. Dr. Verma has taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses in mineralogy and physical geochemistry during the last four decades. He was primarily a metamorphic petrologist but began his research in the regional geology of metamorphic rocks in the Eastern Himalayas. In addition to the Himalayas, his area of interest was in the petrology of the planetary interior. He published several research articles in leading international journals and edited two books on Eastern Himalayan Geology. Prof. Verma had held visiting assignments in USA, Germany, and Zambia. He was a fellow of the Mineralogical Society London. He also served as the president of the Earth System Sciences Section of the Indian Science Congress and the vice president of the Indian Geological Congress.

Pramod Kumar Verma是德里大學地質學的退休教授，他於1973年在美國哈佛大學獲得地質學博士學位。在過去的四十年中，Verma博士教授了礦物學和物理地球化學的本科及研究生課程。他主要是一位變質岩石學家，但開始研究東喜馬拉雅山變質岩的區域地質。除了喜馬拉雅山，他的研究興趣還包括行星內部的岩石學。他在多本國際知名期刊上發表了多篇研究文章，並編輯了兩本有關東喜馬拉雅地質的書籍。Verma教授曾在美國、德國和贊比亞擔任訪問職位。他是倫敦礦物學會的會員，並曾擔任印度科學大會地球系統科學部的主席及印度地質大會的副主席。