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The Six Core Theories of Modern Physics
The Six Core Theories of Modern Physics reviews all the key areas of physics in one place. It provides a brief, clear, and self-contained summary of the basic theoretical structures of classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, statistical physics, special relativity, and quantum field theory. In addition, the mathematics required for these areas is conveniently summarized in the initial chapter.
Advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students can use The Six Core Theories of Modern Physics as a supplement to the standard texts or for an unclutterred, succinct review of the key areas. Professionals in such quantitative sciences as chemistry, engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, and biophysics who need to brush up on the essentials of a particular area will find most of the required background material, including the mathematics.
Chapters may be read in any order, although the order in which they appear indicates roughly their level of difficulty and the extent to which a particular chapter depends on knowledge and sophistication gained in preceding ones. Each chapter consists of a main part, which gives the core theory, and optional sections which are more advanced and specialized.
Advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students can use The Six Core Theories of Modern Physics as a supplement to the standard texts or for an unclutterred, succinct review of the key areas. Professionals in such quantitative sciences as chemistry, engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, and biophysics who need to brush up on the essentials of a particular area will find most of the required background material, including the mathematics.
Chapters may be read in any order, although the order in which they appear indicates roughly their level of difficulty and the extent to which a particular chapter depends on knowledge and sophistication gained in preceding ones. Each chapter consists of a main part, which gives the core theory, and optional sections which are more advanced and specialized.
247 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1995
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Charles F. Stevens
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Charles F. "Chuck" Stevens (born 1934) is an American neurobiologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla.
He received his BA in Psychology from Harvard, his MD from Yale, and his PhD in Biophysics from Rockefeller University.
He is the Vincent J. Coates Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, adjunct professor of pharmacology and neuroscience at UCSD's School of Medicine and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
As a researcher he has a special interest in the mathematical operations carried out by neural circuits and the design principles that underlie the scalable architecture of neural circuits.
See: Charles F. Stevens
Charles F. "Chuck" Stevens (born 1934) is an American neurobiologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla.
He received his BA in Psychology from Harvard, his MD from Yale, and his PhD in Biophysics from Rockefeller University.
He is the Vincent J. Coates Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, adjunct professor of pharmacology and neuroscience at UCSD's School of Medicine and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
As a researcher he has a special interest in the mathematical operations carried out by neural circuits and the design principles that underlie the scalable architecture of neural circuits.
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November 30, 2021
Say you wake up from a comma 20 years after having graduated from your Physics school, and don't remember much. Pick this book for a fast refresher.
Contents : needed mathematics (vector analysis, linear operators on inner-product spaces, green's functions, calculus of variations, random walk, functional calculus, gaussian random processes, cartesian tensors), Classical mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Quantum Mechanics, Statistical physics, Special relativity, Quantum field theory.
Contents : needed mathematics (vector analysis, linear operators on inner-product spaces, green's functions, calculus of variations, random walk, functional calculus, gaussian random processes, cartesian tensors), Classical mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Quantum Mechanics, Statistical physics, Special relativity, Quantum field theory.
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