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This is a very good book for someone just getting started in Gauge Theory. Although a more modern edition should be issued, sin... Read More
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Needed to correctly explain this representational system mathematically (in general), and where he does use partial differential equations, they are the tiny mice type versions that don't break in the middle of a page.
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Level warning: some reviews have pegged this at intelligent layman/ advanced high school.
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Connections are defined here as lie-algebra-valued forms on the space-time manifold, not as connection forms on the principal bundle as mathematicians do it.
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If you have a good understanding of fibre bundles, that won't help you at all.
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Unfortunately the w and z bosons were verified experimentally only in 1983, apparently a few months after this book was written.
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But the predictions of masses and other properties explained in this book were verified by experiment.
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The author begins the story with weyl's general-relativity-based gauge theory, which is really only important because it explains the confusing name of the subject.