Mirror Symmetry: The Mother of All Crystal Symmetries

這本研究生級教科書探討了平面鏡和與鏡相關的對稱性的不同方面。它提供了一些新的方式來理解晶體中的對稱性和鏡組合方案。根據鏡組合方案，包括Wigner-Seitz單位晶胞、倒易格子、布里渊區、晶體的衍射等主題，對於理解晶體學中的許多其他概念非常有幫助。鏡是晶體中唯一的基本對稱性，所有其他允許的晶體固體對稱性都可以從適當的鏡組合中衍生出來，稱為衍生對稱性。對晶體學中的對稱性有基本的了解對於物理、化學、數學、分子生物學、地質學、冶金學以及特別是材料科學和礦物學的學生、研究人員和專業人士來說是必不可少的。

M. A. Wahab is Former Professor and Head of the Department of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, where he joined as Lecturer in 1985. Earlier, he served as Lecturer at the P. G. Department of Physics and Electronics, University of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India, from 1981. During these years, he taught electrodynamics, statistical mechanics, theory of relativity, advanced solid-state physics, crystallography, physics of materials, growth and imperfections of materials, and general solid-state physics. He completed his Ph.D. (Physics) from the University of Delhi, India, and M.Sc. (Physics) from Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has also contributed more than 100 research papers to several journals of repute and supervised 15 Ph.D. theses during his career at Jamia Millia Islamia. He has published the discovery of hexagonal close packing (HCP) and rhombohedral close packing (RCP) as the two new space lattices, along with his son (Mr. Khurram Mujtaba Wahab), as theirfirst joint paper after his retirement.

M. A. Wahab是印度新德里Jamia Millia Islamia物理系的前教授和系主任，他於1985年加入該校擔任講師。早期，他在印度查謨和克什米爾大學的物理與電子學研究生部擔任講師，任職於1981年。在這些年裡，他教授了電動力學、統計力學、相對論理論、先進固態物理、晶體學、材料物理、材料生長和缺陷以及一般固態物理等課程。他在印度德里大學獲得了物理學博士學位，並在印度阿利加爾穆斯林大學獲得了物理學碩士學位。在他在Jamia Millia Islamia的職業生涯中，他還在多個知名期刊上發表了100多篇研究論文，並指導了15位博士生。他與兒子Khurram Mujtaba Wahab合作發表了六角密堆積（HCP）和菱面密堆積（RCP）作為兩種新的空間晶格的發現，這是他退休後的首篇合作論文。