Principles of Optics: 60th Anniversary Edition

No better book on the matter

Born and Wolfe is a classic of Optics. Not a text for the novice.

The physics in this book is, sort of, Bible, although a little bit of outdated in some aspects.The problem is the display of equations in the eBook version. The first figure is the screenshot of a page of eBook version of the book, and the second figure is the same page of the same book shown in the "LookInside" preview in the Amazon webpage.It is very difficult to follow the equations with this size. Each time I try to see the equations, I need to magnify in one way or another.I contacted Amazon support, and was told that magnifying is the only solution for now.I hope this is fixed and I can download a version with normal size equation display.

The equations do not scale with font size and are natively too small to read on my iPad.I highly recommend you do not buy this book.

This is a classic text which is considered essential for those that already know that for which they are looking.At first I thought the Kindle ebook version for an Apple iPad was criminal to sell since the equations were too small to read and the publisher when contacted said that they had contracted out the ebook version and would see if the contractor would fix this error (that was many months ago and it hasn’t happened). I recently discovered (for other reasons) that I could go to the Accessibility feature under Setup on the iPad and turn on zoom and make it so that a zoom box would magically appear that I could put over the equations when the “Use trackpad gesture to zoom” option was enabled. This allows one to double-tap three fingers to zoom in and out and the zoom box can be moved; this actually works on the touchscreen. Too bad Cambridge Press doesn’t just ante-up and get this fixed; there are countless complaints in the reviews which seem to ignore.

I don't know why the book's formula font size is tiny!

The equations are tiny and unreadable. Maybe you can zoom in, maybe you can't. It makes the book useless. I wish I could get my money back.