"Version: 20230401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Foreword / by Sir J.B. Pendry -- 1. Metamaterials or left-handed materials--a counter-intuitive artificial material -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Metamaterial versus other artificial materials -- 1.3. Mathematical basis of the counter-intuitive properties of metamaterial -- 1.4. Boundary conditions in metamaterial -- 1.5. …