This book is only readable AFTER you have read Schutz "Introduction to general relativity", the latter is a much better book.One key flaw is that the author tries to cover lots of stuff in very little space, which requires read to take leap of faith. Lie group and Lie algebra are not covered well in
Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics
โ Scribed by G. Kaiser, J.E. Marsden
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 273
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Mathematics
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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This book is only readable AFTER you have read Schutz "Introduction to general relativity", the latter is a much better book. One key flaw is that the author tries to cover lots of stuff in very little space, which requires read to take leap of faith. Lie group and Lie algebra are not covered well
In recent years the methods of modern differential geometry have become of considerable importance in theoretical physics and have found application in relativity and cosmology, high-energy physics and field theory, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and mechanics. This textbook provides an introduction