A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics, 2nd edition

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September 17, 2007

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The Times Education Supplement
“The book is laced with penetrating little insights delivered with a wry wit which makes for an entertaining read”

Physics Today
“…it is perfect for an ambitious graduate student, an adventurous scientist in another field or even an ageing physics professor who has devoted himself to a speciality and would relish an excursion into unfamiliar territory.”

Contemporary Physics
“Will be uniquely valuable in assisting and encouraging our graduate students…to see and exploit the fertile connections and analogies between different sub-disciplines, so that we all become better theoretical physicists.”

Zentralblatt fur Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete/Mathematics Abstracts
“…recommend to everyone who wants to get an understanding of the modern theories of the early universe that goes well beyond a semi-popular account without requiring a full-scale assault on the technical literature.”

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Review
A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics has a charming first chapter that compares the overview of theoretical physics offered in the following chapters to the Grand Tour of the continent taken by young Englishmen in the 18th century … If a person were to work through the entire book, he or she would gain an understanding of relativity, quantum theory, spacetime, tensors, gauge theories, field theory, and statistical mechanics. New to the second edition is material on string theory and supersymetry.
-E-STREAMS, Vol. 5, No. 9

Book Description
A unified account of the principles of theoretical physics, A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics, Second Edition stresses the inter-relationships between areas that are usually treated as independent. The profound unifying influence of geometrical ideas, the powerful formal similarities between statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, and the ubiquitous role of symmetries in determining the essential structure of physical theories are emphasized throughout. This second edition conducts a grand tour of the fundamental theories that shape our modern understanding of the physical world. The book covers the central themes of space-time geometry and the general relativistic account of gravity, quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, gauge theories and the fundamental forces of nature, statistical mechanics, and the theory of phase transitions. The basic structure of each theory is explained in explicit mathematical detail with emphasis on conceptual understanding rather than on the technical details of specialized applications. The book gives straightforward accounts of the standard models of particle physics and cosmology.

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