Prerequisites

Posted on June 9, 2010 by woit

The Abstruse Goose recently provided an excellent summary of how to go about learning string theory. It starts with “String Theory for Dummies”, here. Tommaso Dorigo’s latest say of the week is somehow relevant.

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5 Responses to Prerequisites

  1. ampm says:
    June 9, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    There’s commentary on those who wish to use mathematics to study gauge theories, too.

    http://abstrusegoose.com/105

  2. Giotis says:
    June 9, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    He forgot to include Supersymmetry and Supergravity.

  3. Coin says:
    June 10, 2010 at 7:14 pm

    I would be legitimately interested in an entry-level introduction to string theory, especially if it focused on string theory as a mathematical framework rather than string theory as a physical theory.

  4. Tim van Beek says:
    June 11, 2010 at 5:40 am

    @Coin: You could try “A mathematical introduction to string theory. Variational problems, geometric
    and probabilistic methods.” by Albeverio, Jost, Paycha, Scarlatti.
    This is a mathematically sound exposition of the quantization of the relativistic bosonic string using the Polyakov functional integral (so it is not an introduction to “string theory”, as the title implies, but only to one aspect, but mathematically rigorous).

  5. Coin says:
    June 12, 2010 at 4:20 pm

    Tim, thanks! I’ll try to take a look and see if I can handle it…

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