Symmetry Groups in Nuclear and Particle Physics: Lecture-Note and Reprint Volume

"This book is intended to be a sequel to The Eightfold Way, a collection of reprints edited by Gell-Mann and Ne'eman and published in the Frontiers in Physics series in 1964. The Eightfold Way covered the triumphant history of the symmetry group SU(3) from 1961 to 1964, during which time SU(3) emerged from tentative beginnings to become the central organizing principle of particle physics..."