Supersymmetry makes its case
Paul K. Townsend · Physics World · 2000
In 1951 Herman Weyl, a pioneer in the application of the mathematics of symmetry to physics, published a popular account of the field. His book was called, quite simply, Symmetry. To the uninitiated, Gordon Kane's new book Supersymmetry might be construed as evidence that the world of physics has been gripped by the same inflationary trend that has turned fashion models into supermodels. However neither the topic nor the terminology is new.