electromagnetism and the structure of matter, Daniele Funaro World Scientific, Singapore, 2008 Keywords: photons, electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic tensor, Lagrangian, electric field, magnetic field, eikonal equation, geometrical optics, electromagnetic stress tensor, spherical wave, plane wave, polarization, Faraday, Lorentz invariance, covariant form, Einstein equation exact solutions, electron, proton, neutrino, vortex ring, Euler equation, fluids, Lorentz law, covariant, gauge, Lorenz gauge, Huygens principle, wave front, matter, Ampere law, particle, casimir effect, chirality, constrained wave, free wave, continuity equation, diffraction, dipole, Dirac equation, electromagnetic potential, elementary wave, energy tensor, equation of state, geodesics, gravitational wave, Kerr-Newmann solution, Klein-Gordon equation, Lorentz transformation, magnetic monopole, mass tensor, Minkowski space, monochromatic wave, phonon, photon emission, Planck constant, fine structure constant, Poynting vector, quantization, eigenvalues, quantum electro dynamics, quantum phenomena, Ricci tensor, curvature, Schroedinger equation, space-time, general relativity, precession, wave equation, zero point radiation, dark energy.