ABSTRACT

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,

chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction: The Ways of Nature

chapter 2|39 pages

Geometry

chapter 4|24 pages

General Relativity and Gravitation

chapter 5|23 pages

Quantum Theory

chapter 8|20 pages

Forces, Connections and Gauge Fields

chapter 9|36 pages

Interacting Relativistic Field Theories

chapter 10|31 pages

Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

chapter 11|29 pages

Phase Transitions

chapter 13|33 pages

Solitons and So On

chapter 14|46 pages

The Early Universe

chapter 15|76 pages

An Introduction to String Theory