Introduction to String Theory

Sergio Cecotti

ISBN 10: 3031365321 / ISBN 13: 9783031365324

Published by Springer Nature Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, 2024

About this Item

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Graduate students typically enter into courses on string theory having little to no familiarity with the mathematical background so crucial to the discipline. As such, this book, based on lecture notes, edited and expanded, from the graduate course taught by the author at SISSA and BIMSA, places particular emphasis on said mathematical background. The target audience for the book includes students of both theoretical physics and mathematics. This explains the book's 'strange' style: on the one hand, it is highly didactic and explicit, with a host of examples for the physicists, but, in addition, there are also almost 100 separate technical boxes, appendices, and starred sections, in which matters discussed in the main text are put into a broader mathematical perspective, while deeper and more rigorous points of view (particularly those from the modern era) are presented. The boxes also serve to further shore up the reader's understanding of the underlying math. In writing this book,the author's goal was not to achieve any sort of definitive conciseness, opting instead for clarity and 'completeness'. To this end, several arguments are presented more than once from different viewpoints and in varying contexts.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to String Theory
• Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland, Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031365321
• ISBN 13: 9783031365324
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 46D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 46 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1276 grams

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Synopsis

Graduate students typically enter into courses on string theory having little to no familiarity with the mathematical background so crucial to the discipline. As such, this book, based on lecture notes, edited and expanded, from the graduate course taught by the author at SISSA and BIMSA, places particular emphasis on said mathematical background. The target audience for the book includes students of both theoretical physics and mathematics. This explains the book’s "strange" style: on the one hand, it is highly didactic and explicit, with a host of examples for the physicists, but, in addition, there are also almost 100 separate technical boxes, appendices, and starred sections, in which matters discussed in the main text are put into a broader mathematical perspective, while deeper and more rigorous points of view (particularly those from the modern era) are presented. The boxes also serve to further shore up the reader’s understanding of the underlying math. In writing this book,the author’s goal was not to achieve any sort of definitive conciseness, opting instead for clarity and "completeness". To this end, several arguments are presented more than once from different viewpoints and in varying contexts. 

About the Author

Sergio Cecotti graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Pisa in 1979, and has worked at Harvard University, UCLA, the CERN in Geneva and the ICTP in Trieste. He has taught physics at the University of Pisa, the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste (SISSA), and now at BIMSA in Beijing.