Topology and Geometry for Physicists

By Siddhartha Sen and Charles Nash

Book Overview

Applications from condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics and elementary particle theory appear in the book. An obvious omission here is general relativity--we apologize for this. We originally intended to discuss general relativity. However, both the need to keep the size of the book within the reasonable limits and the fact that accounts of the topology and geometry of relativity are already available, for example, in The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time by S. Hawking and G. Ellis, made us reluctantly decide to omit this topic.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0125140800
• ISBN13: 9780125140805
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Academic Pr
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview and graphical explanation

This book shows you the geometric view of some advanced mathematical topics. It can greatly assist your intuition of what is going on in a mathematical setting when reading a true mathematics book. Armed with this book the other advanced text in Topology, Algebraic Geometry and Differential Geometry make more sense from a Physics point of view.

Great introduction to mathematical physics.

This book is written by physicists. Like a book by M. Nakahara it describes basics of diff geometry and topology. Though it stresses physical intuition more than formal definitions. I especially liked discussion of fiber bundles and characteristic classes. Highly recommended.