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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:55:43 CST
- From: <U16072@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <93012.105543U16072@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Advise needed
- References: <1993Jan9.040519.20022@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
- <1993Jan11.213454.12534@galois.mit.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan11.213454.12534@galois.mit.edu>, jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C.
- Baez) says:
- >Penrose and Rinder's Spinors and Spacetime (2 volumes). As for
- >2-dimensional physics, you might try Kaku's two books on string theory.
- >(Especially for the latter, you will need to consult the references to
- >get a handle on the vast literature.) There are also lots of
-
- Kaku's books will be helpfull for the references, but you will be much
- better off reading the original references. A better review is
- Ginsparg's "Applied Conformal Theory" appearing in Les Houches 1988
- Fields,Strings and Critical Phenomena.
-