2009. 2nd Edition. hardcover. Once again faithful to its goal of making string theory accessible to undergraduates - and now also covers AdS/CFT correspondence. Num Pages: 694 pages, 86 b/w illus. 180 exercises. BIC Classification: PHS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 188 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1648. 696 pages, 86 b/w illus. 180 exercises. Once again faithful to its goal of making string theory accessible to undergraduates - and now also covers AdS/CFT correspondence. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: PHS. Dimension: 251 x 188 x 32. Weight: 1622. . . . . .

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Title: A First Course in String Theory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521880327
ISBN 13: 9780521880329
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: New

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Barton Zwiebach is once again faithful to his goal of making string theory accessible to undergraduates. Complete and thorough in its coverage, the author presents the main concepts of string theory in a concrete and physical way in order to develop intuition before formalism, often through simplified and illustrative examples. This new edition now includes AdS/CFT correspondence, which is the hottest area of string theory right now as well as introducing superstrings. The text is perfectly suited to introductory courses in string theory for students with a background in mathematics and physics. New sections cover strings on orbifolds, cosmic strings, moduli stabilization, and the string theory landscape.

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Barton Zwiebach is Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His central contributions have been in the area of string field theory, where he did the early work on the construction of the field theory of open strings and then developed the field theory of closed strings. He has also made important contributions to the subjects of D-branes with exceptional symmetry and tachyon condensation.

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