A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics invites its readers to a guided exploration of the theoretical ideas that shape our contemporary understanding of the physical world at the fundamental level. Its central themes, comprising space-time geometry and the general relativistic account of gravity, quantum field theory and the gauge theories of
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A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Glossary of Mathematical Symbols
- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Ways of Nature
- Chapter 2. Geometry
- Chapter 3. Classical Physics in Galilean and Minkowski Spacetimes
- Chapter 4. General Relativity and Gravitation
- Chapter 5. Quantum Theory
- Chapter 6. Second Quantization and Quantum Field Theory
- Chapter 7. Relativistic Wave Equations and Field Theories
- Chapter 8. Forces, Connections and Gauge Fields
- Chapter 9. Interacting Relativistic Field Theories
- Chapter 10. Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
- Chapter 11. Phase Transitions
- Chapter 12. Unified Gauge Theories of the Fundamental Interactions
- Chapter 13. Solitons and So On
- Chapter 14. The Early Universe
- Chapter 15. *An Introduction to String Theory
- Chapter 16. *Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
- Some Snapshots of the Tour
- Appendix A Some Mathematical Notes
- Appendix B Some Elements of Group Theory
- Appendix C Natural Units
- Appendix D Scattering Cross Sections and Particle Decay Rates
- Bibliography
- References
- Back Cover
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