(7022,2560,'CDP\'s Onceagain habit of purchasing','','','','2014-06-02 12:00:00','2014-06-02 12:00:00','I am interested in learning more about Physics and \"Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics (The Open Yale Courses Series) [Kindle Edition]  gives me a way to have the option to utilize my Kindle reader and the Kindle app on my PC for working with the problems.  This book offers a good sound start to learning the physics you would get in a college course and can be studied at my own pace.  Looks very thorough and up to date.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7024,2560,'Husam Malkawi','','','','2019-12-03 12:00:00','2019-12-03 12:00:00','Same old book, but with additional problems and their answers(no detailed solutions). Paired with the Yale OpenCourseWare videos, this hands down makes the best physics introduction on the internet.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7025,2560,'Inez Layman','','','','2020-07-19 12:00:00','2020-07-19 12:00:00','Very nice I haven’t read it thoroughly yet but I flipped through a few pages and ver good content.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7026,2560,'Thomas S. Duncan','','','','2018-10-19 12:00:00','2018-10-19 12:00:00','Very thorough and straightforward instruction in mechanics, etc..  Calculus proficiency is assumed and the reader should  be prepared to be additionally challenged in calculus as well invest time in the examples and problems.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7028,2560,'dinakar','','','','2014-03-17 12:00:00','2014-03-17 12:00:00','If you saw the movie (video lectures of PHYS 200) like I did, you must read this book. It covers key concepts of mechanics and thermodynamics in the same lively spirit as Prof.Shankar\'s classroom lectures. I particularly like the way he handles Special Relativity and Entropy. It\'s hard to find books that explain otherwise hard to grasp concepts this lucidly. Also, you can\'t beat the price!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7029,2560,'Robert Dearborn','','','','2017-12-31 12:00:00','2017-12-31 12:00:00','Engaging and well-explained overview of dynamics, both in terms of qualitative concept discussions and the math behind them. Recommend to anyone who knows basic math/calculus and wants to learn the fundamental skeleton of physics!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7030,2560,'ben howe','','','','2019-05-18 12:00:00','2019-05-18 12:00:00','This and volume 2 make an excellent addition to any physics collection. Even has companion material provided by Yale open source.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7031,2560,'Jophick','','','','2015-02-23 12:00:00','2015-02-23 12:00:00','Unlike regular physics textbooks, this book is perfect as a refresher. It takes on the basic underlying concepts without beating about the bush, deriving formulas from scratch in a way you will never forget them. Works even better when you go through the Professor\'s videos on youtube first. That way, the physics never leaves your head.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7032,2560,'Lori','','','','2020-01-10 12:00:00','2020-01-10 12:00:00','Got it for a gift for someone and they liked it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7033,2560,'Front to Back','','','','2017-09-14 12:00:00','2017-09-14 12:00:00','Some academics make good teachers and this can be said of Prof. Shankar.  This is an excellent book that is written in a clear style with logical approach.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7034,2560,'Math Student','','','','2017-07-28 12:00:00','2017-07-28 12:00:00','Dr. Shankar\'s books on Physics are both fantastic.  I really can\'t say more than I wish these books were around when I was an undergraduate science major.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7035,2560,'Garth Bowden','','','','2018-11-13 12:00:00','2018-11-13 12:00:00','It\'s an excellent introduction to these topics. I wish there were some problem sets though.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7036,2560,'karl sparks','','','','2015-02-18 12:00:00','2015-02-18 12:00:00','Good place to start for readers with an interest in the subject. Basic knowledge of trigonometry and calculus required. Written in comic language with an air of intelligence that gives the impression that the author doesn\'t take himself too seriously.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7037,2560,'James Martin','','','','2014-12-16 12:00:00','2014-12-16 12:00:00','Awesome, awesome book - easy to read, humorous and well done.  But also very complete.  Be sure to check out the open source lectures by the author on Yales online course site.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7038,2560,'D. Bishop','','','','2016-09-15 12:00:00','2016-09-15 12:00:00','Professor Shankar gives a delightful and elegant presentation to physics in his books.<br>I would recommend viewing his courses on youtube or through YaleCourses.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7039,2560,'Jim I','','','','2016-03-24 12:00:00','2016-03-24 12:00:00','I like the way this guy phrases things.  I teach physics and really enjoy reading this book.  I like to watch his lecture videos too.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7040,2560,'Frank Schelfaut','','','','2015-01-10 12:00:00','2015-01-10 12:00:00','Dr Shankar is one of the best Physics teachers I have ever attended lectures from. His book is a perfect summary of his course. I am awaiting his second part.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7041,2560,'ThierryJanette','','','','2017-11-04 12:00:00','2017-11-04 12:00:00','Very easy to understand and it goes well with the free training videos online!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7042,2560,'Jaywill Sands','','','','2016-06-25 12:00:00','2016-06-25 12:00:00','Amazing book. Extremely well written. Shankar had a way of explaining the content outside the relhm of the typical textbook style. Enjoy.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7043,2560,'Aaron Customer ','','','','2023-03-04 12:00:00','2023-03-04 12:00:00','Good advice, subjects, and on updating me.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7044,2560,'nomenmeum','','','','2023-01-18 12:00:00','2023-01-18 12:00:00','Liked its comprehensiveness, did not like the frequent use of poor grammar and poor word choices.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7045,2560,'Leeber Cohen','','','','2014-06-17 12:00:00','2014-06-17 12:00:00','This book is  a good way to refresh your memory of concepts from the first year of college physics. Shankar is well known to many quantum mechanics students book from his  textbook. He is a highly respected teacher with an online series on basic physics. I particularly enjoyed Chapter 16 on mathematical methods which is a quick summary of Taylor Series and complex variables. If you are familiar with this material, it is a nice relaxing read of old mathematical friends. The derivations for  the series for e, sin, and cos are straightforward if you remember beginning calculus. Shankar quickly mentions Leonard Euler. If you do not know who Leonard Euler is or the significance of the formula attributed him please read Maor\'s e:the Story of the Number and then Nahin\'s An Imaginary Tale. The chapters in this book are approximately 20 pages long and usually can be read with about an hour of time. The chapters on rotational dynamics, simple harmonic motion, and waves are an excellent review of concepts that will be required for future study of basic quantum mechanics. There are three nice chapters on special relativity. The reader may also want to check out Collier\'s A Most Incomprehensible Thing.  As stated elsewhere electromagnetism and quantum mechanics are planned in the second volume of this book. Be warned that the author inserts many jokes that are not that funny.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7046,2560,'Mark','','','','2016-06-26 12:00:00','2016-06-26 12:00:00','The quality of the content is amazing. It\'s clear and straightforward, it doesn\'t leave the reader pondering what\'s going on. This is pretty constant without.<br><br>My main gripe with this book is that the best way to learn physics is to do problems. Which this book has none of. Instead on the first chapter he refers you to the Yale website where he has practice problems with worked solutions. Which is nice, but you\'re making the reader do more than should be necessary.<br><br>I think this book would be amazing if it had at least the questions, and then the solutions on the website. Honestly, I would prefer both the solutions and questions to be in the book itself, but I\'m assuming the publisher/author wanted to save money on paper, and solutions to take up quite a lot of space.<br><br>Overall I recommend this book. I don\'t regret buying it. I used it a long side an actual textbook so I could understand the theory a bit more. I honestly wouldn\'t mind paying a few bucks more for problems in book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7047,2560,'Thomas J. Wilson','','','','2017-06-26 12:00:00','2017-06-26 12:00:00','Wonderful elucidation by perhaps the most enjoyable physics lecturer since Feynman.  If you’ve attempted the Feynman Lectures on Physics you’ve come to assume a dizzying number unexpected gems of insight will jump out at you that completely change your world view; Shankar’s gems are less disorienting, but really satisfying and his humor is subtle and lots of fun.  I believe that, for each volume of the series, a companion volume with a large number of SOLVED problems to go along with the text would be an invaluable addition and push the ratings to five stars for each.  The mathematics volume doesn’t really satisfy that need and often takes a little too much for granted with respect to the reader\'s background.<br> The online lectures are excellent.&nbsp;\n  \nThe Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium EditionBasic Training in Mathematics: A Fitness Program for Science Students',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7050,2560,'Alfred M. Powell','','','','2019-07-13 12:00:00','2019-07-13 12:00:00','Book was as advertised in ad and arrived within estimated time.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7051,2560,'rl bollins','','','','2019-10-30 12:00:00','2019-10-30 12:00:00','As expected',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7053,2560,'John E. Banks','','','','2014-07-08 12:00:00','2014-07-08 12:00:00','I enjoyed parts of this book but the math concepts precluded my understanding the book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7054,2560,'Naydn R Best','','','','2014-09-04 12:00:00','2014-09-04 12:00:00','This is a great reference book to have in your library.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7055,2560,'Jim Brad','','','','2016-07-21 12:00:00','2016-07-21 12:00:00','Good pocket reference',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7056,2560,'Alexander Sloane','','','','2016-06-16 12:00:00','2016-06-16 12:00:00','Very readable.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7057,2560,'Antonio Alt','','','','2022-05-26 12:00:00','2022-05-26 12:00:00','I would highly recommend this book to someone who is going back/reviewing what they know. It is a great book for that purpose. I grabbed this book since I plan on teaching a friend of mine some basic physics and I needed to brush up on some of the material so I don\'t overwhelm him, so this book works great as a tool to refresh myself and to better translate the information of a textbook over to him. I wouldn\'t recommend it to someone who is just getting started though to be honest because the material is more for someone seeking an understanding of the material after having learned some very basic physics. The best way I would describe it as is probably a great book for a professor to use as a guide while teaching beginners.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7058,2560,'Rluk2860','','','','2019-07-29 12:00:00','2019-07-29 12:00:00','Physics is nothing without solving practical problems. Does this book have problems with answers at the end of the book?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7059,2560,'Rob Pearson','','','','2017-08-25 12:00:00','2017-08-25 12:00:00','This level 1 physics text is easy to follow. It is supported by the Open Course videos on YouTube.<br>In',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7060,2560,'R. Watts','','','','2015-02-17 12:00:00','2015-02-17 12:00:00','A great book on the topic of Physics, although I didn\'t find the intended humor insertions all that humorous. But I didn\'t let it distract me from the ease of reading. It\'s very well written, concise and doesn\'t get too heavy-handed when discussing topics of rotational dynamics, simple harmonic motion, theory of relativity, etc.. The information can be absorbed well and won\'t feel intimidating to the most pedestrian of physics enthusiasts.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7061,2560,'Who_is_gv','','','','2015-12-18 12:00:00','2015-12-18 12:00:00','I was hoping it was for the Physics II course (which I viewed online), but it\'s for Physics I. Either way, great reference book. I hope he writes a book for the second course.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7062,2560,'CHEN LAI KEAT','','','','2016-08-09 12:00:00','2016-08-09 12:00:00','A useful reference book for physics students',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7063,2478,'potatocake','','','','2019-01-22 12:00:00','2019-01-22 12:00:00','Nakahara is quite a clear book. The logic is very tight and organized and the exercises are nice - they are short and easy, just to check your understanding. It is a good idea to do all of the exercises because there are not many of them. It is one of the more rigorous \"math for physicists\" books I have read.<br><br>There are indeed some mistakes, but you should be able to find them. One good thing is that Nakahara points out the physical interpretation of things, like homotopy, so you can get a intuitive feel. A great book!<br><br>The only complaint I have is that the references are pretty bad. Nakahara likes to cite Japanese books which I do not have access to and, anyway, are in Japanese. I wish he would cite classic books that everyone uses.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7064,2478,'Ricardo Avila','','','','2006-09-19 12:00:00','2006-09-19 12:00:00','This is the best book of its type, that is, a book that contains almost all if not all the advance mathematics a theoretical physicist should know. I have studied chapters 2-9 and it has the perfect balance between rigorous presentation of topics and practical uses with examples. The level is for advance graduate students. The range of topics covered is wide including Topology topics like Homotopy, Homology, Cohomology theory and others like Manifolds, Riemannian Geometry, Complex Manifolds, Fibre Bundles and Characteristics Classes. I believe this book gives you a solid base in the modern mathematics that are being used among the physicists and mathematicians that you certainly may need to know and from where you will be in a position to further extent (if you wish) into more technical advanced mathematical books on specific topics, also it is self contained but the only shortcoming is that it brings not many exercises but still my advice, get it is a superb book!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7065,2478,'tachyonicbrane','','','','2012-02-29 12:00:00','2012-02-29 12:00:00','Seriously, this book has every piece of mathematical knowledge i\'ve ever needed to know to understand my graduate texts on Quantum Field Theory and String Theory.  To top it all off the book has excellent examples and exercises and literally the best notation i\'ve ever seen used to the topics.  I think every theoretical physicist, graduate student, and mathematician interested in physics should probably have a copy.  This book will probably never leave my office.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7066,2478,'nwojo agwu','','','','2019-09-24 12:00:00','2019-09-24 12:00:00','The book is easy to read; provides a lot of examples.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7067,2478,'Ron Measley','','','','2009-10-09 12:00:00','2009-10-09 12:00:00','I bought this book to supplement my knowledge of mathematics which frequently is involved in understanding Particle physics concepts. The book is terse, but peppered with examples and insights about the definitions, and so far it is really fun to read. Seems like a good investment.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7068,2478,'Justine Tarrant','','','','2014-08-17 12:00:00','2014-08-17 12:00:00','A most valuable resource for any theoretical physicist.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7070,2478,'Gargantua','','','','2005-03-25 12:00:00','2005-03-25 12:00:00','This is a very useful book for understanding modern physics. You absolutely need such a book to really understand general relativity, string theory etc. For instance, Wald\'s book on general relativity will make much more sense once you go through Nakahara\'s book. It is very complete, clearly written, comprehensive and easy to read. I would also recommend Morita\'s \"Geometry of differential forms\' and Dubrovin,Novikov and Fomeko\'s 3 volume monograph, if you can find it. All in all, Nakahara\'s book is one of the best buys, precious book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7071,2478,'Anon Student ','','','','2022-11-20 12:00:00','2022-11-20 12:00:00','My entire Differential Geometry course was based upon this book so I relented and splashed out a bit to get myself my own copy that I can annotate freely. I bought a second hand copy for ~£52 and it came in perfect condition. My seller was kind enough to wrap it tightly in plastic to prevent any damage during transport and the pages were not marked or damaged at all.<br><br>I personally really enjoy the way this text has been written there\'s enough detail in the theory to the point were it satisfies me as reader but not so much repetition that it becomes drab. Concise, detailed and thorough in the theorems and proofs presented. Enough exercises to satisfy the passing reader but I guess you can always wish for more :D Hopefully those will get supplemented by your professor. But as always with most graduate student books they are there as a detailed \'dictionary\' if you will - not so much as an exercise book.<br><br>If you want something that covers all bases in your beginners quest of Differential Geometry this is the book for you!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7072,2478,'Alaric Sanders','','','','2021-03-10 12:00:00','2021-03-10 12:00:00','If you, as a pathetic physics student that stopped taking maths classes after undergrad topology, have ever wanted a mathematical physicist to beat you about the head with a blunt instrument until you understood how to express physics ideas in the language of Riemannian geometry then this is the book for you. 10/10 would get flexed on by Nakahara again',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7073,2478,'Debmalya','','','','2018-05-18 12:00:00','2018-05-18 12:00:00','Yes I got it with a excellent quality.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7074,2478,'Jos','','','','2016-09-26 12:00:00','2016-09-26 12:00:00','The book is well explained. Topics are introduced in a progressive way, allowing the reader to adjust to new concepts before applying them in more elaborate scenarios. The author often mention practical applications of mathematical concepts that otherwise look disconnected to physics or any other field. There are few typos and, from my point of view, many figures need a better caption-description.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7075,2478,'William de la Cruz','','','','2014-04-21 12:00:00','2014-04-21 12:00:00','A mandatory book on physics that covers all elemental and advanced topics in geometry and topology. I recomend this volume for ungraduate and graduate students in physics and mathematics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7076,2478,'edward q.','','','','2015-06-03 12:00:00','2015-06-03 12:00:00','good',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7077,2478,'Rehan Dost','','','','2006-06-19 12:00:00','2006-06-19 12:00:00','No doubt, the interplay of topology and physics has stimulated phenomenal research and breakthroughs in mathematics and physics alike.<br><br>Unfortunately, there is so much mathematics to master that the average graduate physics student is left bewildered.....until now.<br><br>The text is an excellent reference book. I emphasize reference. The book presupposes an acquaintance with basic undergraduate mathematics including linear algebra and vector analysis.<br><br>The author covers a wide range of topics from tensor analysis on manifolds to topology, fundamental groups, complex manifolds, differential geometry, fibre bundles etc.<br><br>The exposition in necessarily brief but the main theorems and IDEAS of each topic are presented with specific applications to physics. For example the use of differential geometry in general relativity and the use of principal bundles in gauge theories, etc.<br><br>Unfortunately, there are very few exercises necessitating the use of supplementary texts. However, to the author\'s credit appropriate supplementary texts are provided. The author goes to great lengths to show which texts inspired the chapters and follows the same line of presentation.<br><br>Perhaps the greatest attribute of the text is to take disparate branches of mathematics and coallate them under one text with applications to physics. In doing so one gains a better grasp of how the fields of mathematics interact in the domain of physics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7078,2478,'Vincenzo Parente','','','','2007-05-13 12:00:00','2007-05-13 12:00:00','This book provide a complete and useful review of geometrical instuments of mathematical physics from the beginnig to the most advanced topics of interest. It can be used by students at the beginnig of thei studies in this topics, and it\'s found to be a useful gallery for higher level students (or scholar).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7079,2478,'Professor Joseph L. McCauley','','','','2004-01-21 12:00:00','2004-01-21 12:00:00','Highly stimulating and extremely hard to read, written for mathematicians in physics. However, the chapter on Riemannian Geometry can be worked through, up to a point, without any knowledge of exterior differential forms, and is notable if for only one fact alone: a simple calculation is provided that explains explicitly that spheres in four and eight dimensions (3-spheres and 7-spheres) are flat with torsion! I don\'t know another reference that a physicist without special background in math can consult to understand this highly nonintuitive fact.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7080,2478,'Alexander Close','','','','2013-02-26 12:00:00','2013-02-26 12:00:00','I must say that this edition contains some severe errors. In several places the mathematics has been wrongly transferred over from the old edition in key definitions such as those of the wedge product (those should be tensor products on the RHS) and topological spaces (that\'s a J in (ii), not a T) and elsewhere in the book. I\'m not sure how many there are in total so I write this as a caution that if you aren\'t sure what you\'re doing it might be wise to check out an older edition. I don\'t know how it\'s happened but it has.<br><br>Other than that, classic book and extremely useful for a starting-out theoretical or mathematical physicist.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7081,2478,'benj38','','','','2015-08-12 12:00:00','2015-08-12 12:00:00','Une valeur sûre pour apprendre la géométrie différentielle (mathématiciens s\'abstenir) et avoir une première exposition à la topologie en physique.<br><br>Seul bémol (de taille) : la géométrie symplectique, qui sous-tend la mécanique analytique, est oubliée ...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7082,2498,'Bill','','','','2021-05-04 12:00:00','2021-05-04 12:00:00','Collects almost everything you need to design accelerator systems in one handy book. One of my best book purchases, and will probably be a big help in my career.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7083,2498,'CJ','','','','2015-07-09 12:00:00','2015-07-09 12:00:00','The ultimate guide',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7084,2498,'knoweigh','','','','2017-03-23 12:00:00','2017-03-23 12:00:00','Incredibly helpful, accessible even to an undergrad.  I have never come up empty-handed when looking for answers within this book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7085,2498,'Chris Eckman','','','','2015-04-04 12:00:00','2015-04-04 12:00:00','as described',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7086,2498,'Filip Persson','','','','2018-04-02 12:00:00','2018-04-02 12:00:00','Contains a lot in a handy format.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7087,2498,'Lei Zang','','','','2013-08-10 12:00:00','2013-08-10 12:00:00','The book is a must have for anyone who is working in this field.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7088,2552,'Esha Singh','','','','2023-07-09 12:00:00','2023-07-09 12:00:00','Griffiths never fails to explain things thoroughly, give some good problems, and make me cry tears of pain and joy at the same time.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7089,2552,'AnalogJoe','','','','2015-07-16 12:00:00','2015-07-16 12:00:00','Griffiths made a great job writting this book, with his informal way of explaining things everything is simpler without loosing much rigor or oversimplifying things. There are plenty of examples provided, and many analogies with familiar problems or situations to make the subject easier to grasp.<br><br>Its important to understand that this book is strictly theoretical, meaning that its not engineering oriented, you will not find chapters on topics engineers might be interested in, namely transmission lines, antenas and such. There are really no engineering applications on the problems or topics covered throughout the book, the only one I can remember of is waveguides and they are really briefly covered in a hypothetical way basically to describe TM, TE modes and such. So bottom line: this is strictly a physics book, but a really good one!<br><br>The one thing I never really liked is the notation the author uses, he claims that using weird characters simplifies things up, however I noticed that using weird unconventional characters just helps to confuse the reader, things are harder to remember and you have to keep going back to check what a specific symbol means, it didnt make sense to me even if the author\'s argument claims to be much more efficient.<br><br>I own several books on EM, namely:<br><br>-Engineering Electromagnetics-- by Hayt<br>-The Electromagnetic Field-- by Shadowitz<br>-Elements of Electromagnetics-- by Sadiku<br>-Fundamentals of Engineering Electromagnetics -- by Cheng<br>-Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics-- by Ramo<br>-Principles of Electrodynamics- by Schwarz<br>-Electromagnetism-- by Grant<br>-Physics Vol. 2 (Electromagnetism)-- by Resnick<br>-Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics-- by Fawwaz<br>-Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics-- by Balanis<br>-A Student\'s Guide to Maxwell equations-- by Fleisch<br><br>...and of course this book by Griffiths, and thats not counting the textbooks on electromagnetic subtopics such as microwaves, antennas, etc, and let me tell you that this book by Griffiths coupled with Fleisch\'s guide to Maxwell equations is in my most humble opinion the best introduction to get a solid understanding in electromagnetism, if you are an engineer and would like to know about engineering applications there are other books you can use, since this book by Griffiths covers no engineering applications, the one by Balanis and Ramo are quite good, but before you move on to those you need a solid foundation and thats what Griffiths provides.<br><br>As for the physical book itself, I have one major complaint, I didnt like the coating material used on the covers, I dont know if everyone is in the same situation I am or maybe my book has a defect, but mine came in with a matte velvet-like coating on the covers, the book looks ok but it just sticks to my fingers, feels like theres a layer of grease or adhesive on the top of each cover, my fingers felt sticky everytime I grabbed the book. After a lot of elbow grease and some isopropyl alcohol I managed to get rid of the coating, now the book has the standard glossy cover every other hardcover book has, althou it doesnt look as good, at least I can hold it without getting that greasy feeling on my fingers.<br><br>Also, I must agree with the other reviewers: the book is breaking apart!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7090,2552,'DonP','','','','2017-02-23 12:00:00','2017-02-23 12:00:00','I especially enjoyed the derivation of the electromagnetic field of an arbitrarily moving point charge and the derivation of the electromagnetic field of a point charge moving with constant velocity by eliminating the retarded time.  This was in the last chapter Potentials and Fields.  The emphasis is on the physical fields E and B rather than on the constituent fields D and H.  For instance, the magnetic field of a uniformly magnetized sphere is obtained by using the bound current density curl M and the bound surface current M x n.  Electromagnetic fields in matter are given a cursory but well-presented treatment.  Everything is explained and tied together well.  For instance, Ampere\'s Law and div B=0 are derived from the Biot-Savart law.  Explanations of how what physically happens is the same regardless of what frame of reference is used to do the calculations are well done.  The derivation of the stress energy tensor in the chapter on Conservation Laws is also well done.  The transformation of the fields under a Lorentz transformation are obtained and the 4-vector potential Au and the field tensor Fuv are presented in the chapter Electrodynamics and Relativity near the end of the book.  There are many entertaining carefully carried out calculations that prove a point.  For instance, in one reference frame a long wire carries a current but is uncharged and creates a magnetic force that creates a force on a point charge moving parallel to the wire. But in the reference frame moving with the point charge, the magnetic field exerts no force but there is an electric field created by the fact that the positive and negative charges in the wire have different Lorentz contraction factors so that in this reference frame the wire has a linear charge density and creates an electric field which creates the same force (when appropriately Lorentz transformed) upon the point charge.  The author also shows that a rectangular current loop in a constant uniform electric field parallel to one side of the loop has a linear (“hidden”) momentum.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7091,2552,'aikitexan','','','','2023-01-04 12:00:00','2023-01-04 12:00:00','It\'s Griffith\'s EM...need I say more? It\'s the only book every physics major needs to buy, everything else is optional. You will use this book a lot outside of the undergrad EM course, too...if you pursue physics that is',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7092,2552,'J.F.','','','','2022-01-03 12:00:00','2022-01-03 12:00:00','So, I dropped out of being a physics major in the late-90s...I am not 100% sure, but I think the class I dropped was using an older edition of this book.  Fast forward a couple decades, and I realized the physics bug never completely left me. I bought this book for self study. It\'s absolutely EXCELLENT! Griffiths does an outstanding job of explaining everything, and the problems are very worthwhile (from easy to extremely challenging). Would absolutely recommend this book for anyone interested in self-study.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7093,2552,'John Thrasher','','','','2022-02-20 12:00:00','2022-02-20 12:00:00','I am a junior in highschool, (graduating early). I fully comprehend Griffiths electrodynamics, as he made it very easy to work through. Right now I’m near: Energy for continuous charge distributions.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7094,2552,'A.K.','','','','2013-01-29 12:00:00','2013-01-29 12:00:00','Looks like this edition has been refreshed. So far the price is ~$13 cheaper than the previous edition. Here\'s a list of changes: [...]<br>New To This Edition<br>*Edits to the entire text have clarified arguments and eliminated ambiguities.<br>*New problems and new worked examples appear throughout, while selected unsuccessful ones have been eliminated.<br>*All 450 figures have been reviewed for accuracy and updated where necessary.<br>*A new section on magnetic work helps to eliminate teachers\' misconception that magnetic forces do not work. The new section fully explores the actual mechanism in cases where magnetic forces are actually working.<br>*Erroneous passages have been corrected. In particular, misleading copy (specifically the treatment of \"hidden momentum\") has been fixed.<br>*Citations of recent literature appear throughout for those who wish to pursue a particular topic in greater depth. This literature helps reinforce the point that electrodynamics is a vibrant and dynamic field, even after 150 years.<br><br>The book is easy to follow, it presents the subject matter in a well formatted fashion.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7095,2552,'Jen V','','','','2019-03-10 12:00:00','2019-03-10 12:00:00','After reading a few other ENM books, I\'ve come to appreciate Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamics. By far the most insightful and easiest to digest. Even though he skips a few steps here and there in proofs which can be a nuisance unless you do the proofs yourself, Griffiths makes it as easy as possible to follow through the material.  If you want to learn Electrodynamics, buy this book. Note: This book is the Indian version and some problems are different and the chapters aren\'t in the same order.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7096,2552,'Jackson Wallace','','','','2020-12-25 12:00:00','2020-12-25 12:00:00','This is a classic text for a reason. In this book, Griffiths is easy to comprehend, witty, and gives a great formal introduction to classical electrodynamics. The exercises range from simple to thought-provoking, but never impossible and there’s plenty of great additional commentary about the development of electrodynamics and topics for deeper exploration.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7097,2552,'juan a cardona','','','','2019-01-03 12:00:00','2019-01-03 12:00:00','I guess this is cool, but my wife isn\'t any closer to making a robot to pick up our dogs\' poo. I ask her if that\'s a thing that she\'s gonna do, but she said that\'s not what she\'s learning to do. I\'m just saying that if we\'re paying all this money to educate her about all these esoteric sciences, there should be some short term payoff. Seriously, I just want the pooper scooper 2000, I\'d even settle for calling it p00b0t MK1. I don\'t think these requests are outrageous, but she just rolls her eyes.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7098,2552,'Matthew','','','','2020-01-03 12:00:00','2020-01-03 12:00:00','Shipped faster than, and cost less than, buying through my school’s bookstore! Even more than that, this is the first textbook I’ve had which genuinely kept my attention. I typically HATE reading textbooks, but this was written in a way that was never dry. It’s got enough information that it can’t all be covered in a single semester, and yet it’s less than half the price of other books I’ve needed in the past!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7099,2552,'Jeff Coleman','','','','2021-08-28 12:00:00','2021-08-28 12:00:00','I\'m learning so much from it. This book is clearly and concisely written and is great for an undergraduate course in Physics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7101,2552,'Francisco Masias','','','','2021-08-28 12:00:00','2021-08-28 12:00:00','100% recomendado. El libro llegó impecable, con todos sus sellos y antes de la fecha acordada.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7102,2552,'Michael Updike','','','','2021-11-29 12:00:00','2021-11-29 12:00:00','It’s the best book for electrodynamics and everyone knows it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7103,2552,'Candice💛Caroline','','','','2022-03-30 12:00:00','2022-03-30 12:00:00','Great book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7104,2552,'Rachell','','','','2019-11-26 12:00:00','2019-11-26 12:00:00','Okay everyone, I love this book, I really do. Even though I cried countless tears over it. Or maybe it was just my teacher? I learned a lot from ACTUALLY reading and mentally digesting this book. It was rough, but worth it.<br>-Your local Astrophysicist',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7105,2552,'Gabriel Chen','','','','2021-05-22 12:00:00','2021-05-22 12:00:00','Greatest electromagnetism textbook of all time. \'Nuff said. It\'s like a Bible for physics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7106,2552,'james adams','','','','2021-04-26 12:00:00','2021-04-26 12:00:00','I am a simple man, I see Griffith\'s Introduction to Electrodynamics, I give 5 stars',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7107,2552,'mack','','','','2019-10-04 12:00:00','2019-10-04 12:00:00','Okay the class I\'m taking with this book is hard, but the book does a decent job explaining stuff, and I\'m not very good at E&amp;M. There\'s a reason Griffiths Electrodynamics is the standard of upper-level undergraduate E&amp;M.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7108,2552,'bob','','','','2018-09-04 12:00:00','2018-09-04 12:00:00','Fits just like I figured. It was a little hard getting the old connectors off but that\'s because the range is so old. Make sure to unplug the range or kill the breaker. If the light comes on when you open the oven door , STOP!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7109,2552,'Zachary J Evans','','','','2019-09-12 12:00:00','2019-09-12 12:00:00','It\'s a good book, there\'s actually decent step by step examples which is gold and rare for some reason.  I wish that I would have known about this book when I was taking mathematical physics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7110,2552,'Customer','','','','2016-09-18 12:00:00','2016-09-18 12:00:00','Griffiths\' text provides a strong foundation to any aspiring physicists understanding of electrodynamics. The proofs within this text are extremely well done and Griffiths does a phenomenal job of breaking down the concepts into easily understood steps. If your school does not use this text, you should recommend it to your professor or use it as a supplemental text.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7112,2552,'Jacob White','','','','2018-05-03 12:00:00','2018-05-03 12:00:00','Some people will praise Purcell and Morin\'s electricity and magnetism and that is a great textbook for a first-semester course but after that initial course (Physics 2) this is the book that\'ll get you into the nitty-gritty of E&amp;M.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7113,2552,'rubbertoe','','','','2020-02-27 12:00:00','2020-02-27 12:00:00','This topic is hard and you will be grateful when the author puts in the review of calculus needed to understand the material.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7114,2552,'Fikus','','','','2014-03-12 12:00:00','2014-03-12 12:00:00','Seriously, Griffiths can do no wrong. He knows his stuff and writes very well - as if you are having a discussion with him. He can also be entertaining in his writing and many times I caught myself laughing at things he said (how many people would put in a textbook that an integral is \'cute\').<br><br>The writing is great and the problems are challenging.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7115,2552,'DIMITRIS LOURIDAS','','','','2019-02-28 12:00:00','2019-02-28 12:00:00','This is a very well written book in electrodynamics one of the best books in physics in the undergraduate level I ever read. It\'s good for self-study.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7116,2552,'fjspang','','','','2021-03-10 12:00:00','2021-03-10 12:00:00','Very good book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7118,2552,'Jonathan Messer','','','','2017-12-20 12:00:00','2017-12-20 12:00:00','Excellent in-depth overview of Electrodynamics, magnetodynamics, as well as statics, with review of necessary core mathematical descriptions and powerful examples, illustrating the concepts Griffiths develops.<br>Delivery was timely and in excellent condition as promised.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7119,2552,'Patrick','','','','2017-09-24 12:00:00','2017-09-24 12:00:00','Little different than the average Griffiths Introduction the Electrodynamics. Namely the physical constants are in the back of the book instead of the front. Overall great durability and a good buy for the price.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7120,2552,'yushengzhao','','','','2017-08-04 12:00:00','2017-08-04 12:00:00','Used it for undergrad level em great book.<br>Very clear illustration.<br>A great entry level textbook. However, if you want something harder , look into landau',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7121,2552,'Brian Calderon','','','','2015-03-24 12:00:00','2015-03-24 12:00:00','Great book, excellent for upperlevel students studying classical electrodynamics. This version uses MKS instead of Gauss units which also made things easier for me. I also found Griffiths to throw some humor in here and there which made it a pleasant surprise.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7123,2552,'Chris','','','','2018-07-04 12:00:00','2018-07-04 12:00:00','This is an excellently written text book on the field of classical electrodynamics. Very thorough!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7124,2552,'Narek','','','','2018-08-28 12:00:00','2018-08-28 12:00:00','As an introductory book, it provides a smooth transition from vector analysis to thermodynamics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7125,2552,'Big Cheese','','','','2017-01-06 12:00:00','2017-01-06 12:00:00','I used it in college and I\'m so glad I did. Just bought me the kindle version so I can take it with me everywhere.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7126,2552,'Omar','','','','2016-07-17 12:00:00','2016-07-17 12:00:00','I had great time studying, this book have good way of explaining the concept and have very god exercises. I totally love it and I definitely recommend it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7127,2552,'Rabindra Basnet','','','','2018-03-08 12:00:00','2018-03-08 12:00:00','It\'s good to get the low price edition book. I am very glad. Tahnk you.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7129,2552,'Luke Kupari','','','','2021-02-07 12:00:00','2021-02-07 12:00:00','I first was sent what seems to be a very poor reprint of the book where the binding falls off the spine, and cracked the first time I opened the book. No reference formula in the front or back cover and the paper is not your usual textbook paper with very low quality. I got sent a new copy and the difference in quality is remarkable, the new copy also contains the reference formulae in the front and back covers and has much better paper.<br><br> So just be careful! don\'t be afraid to return it and hopefully you won\'t be as unlucky as I was!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7130,2552,'Mark','','','','2018-05-16 12:00:00','2018-05-16 12:00:00','This is a review of the fourth edition hardcover.  I used this book for self study, so here are some thoughts on that.<br>First, Griffith\'s answer to the fourth edition are available on the web, but you have to do a bit of searching to find it.  Answer to the third edition are more easily available.<br>Second, the binding of the book does fall apart, and the cover does shred, so a lot of tape is needed.  However the pages themselves held up well.<br>Third, Griffiths is frugal with words.  I really found myself wishing that more was said and this is my biggest criticism of the book.  Maybe a teacher would have filled in what I wanted.<br>Fourth, the problems are hard.  Some problems are marked as being harder and oh boy are they hard.  When I say that the problems are hard I am comparing them to the difficulty of problems in Taylor\'s Mechanics which should be on the same level.  But Griffiths\'s problems are much harder.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7131,2552,'Adoniram','','','','2014-05-21 12:00:00','2014-05-21 12:00:00','EM 1 was probably the hardest course I took through my undergrad program.  This is partly due to a very tough instructor, and part due to a very tough book.  This book, as with Griffith\'s QM book, leaves quite a bit for the reader to determine on their own (or get from their instructor).<br><br>However, as the chapters progress, the material is more satisfying and you gain a very high appreciation for the topic.  We finished chapters 1-7 in 1 semester, and 8-12 in the next semester.  The second semester was by far MUCH more interesting than the first.  If you have struggled and survived through the first half of the book, don\'t cut yourself short and just power through the rest (or take the next course if it\'s offered).<br><br>You will learn so much about real-world EM applications, and the very bizarre (and beautiful) universe around you!  I was going to take a second semester of CM instead of this course (which covered chapters 8-12), and I am so glad I took EM 2 instead!!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7133,2552,'Yoshiki Teramoto','','','','2020-07-01 12:00:00','2020-07-01 12:00:00','This book is a traditional type textbook for  an introductory electromagnetic course. The quality of the contents is very good. It covers all the standard subjects necessary for first time learners of electrodynamics. But, It lacks fascinating to read this book: a good bread-and-butter textbook.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7134,2552,'AnomalousEllipse','','','','2013-04-06 12:00:00','2013-04-06 12:00:00','I am reading this alongside the text by Ohanian and this is a bit lower level. The explanations of how to do problems are much better but Ohanian is far superior at explaining what is going on physically and mathematically. This book is good to have because Ohanian uses CGS units so if I have a need for an equation in MKS I can pull it out of this book already having understood the material I learned in Ohanian. I would say use both in tandem.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7135,2552,'HongKongReader','','','','2013-01-18 12:00:00','2013-01-18 12:00:00','I have used the quantum mechanics book from Griffith too. I think his books are in a leisure style that makes the subject accesible. The explanation sometimes helps a lot. A drawback is that he sometimes introduces something he thinks relevant without enough previous explanation or derivation. It\'s not bad for introduction but for those who seeks for firm basis and for self learners I think it\'s not so suitable.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7136,2552,'Armando Gil','','','','2016-01-05 12:00:00','2016-01-05 12:00:00','Didn\'t see anything on the products info, but this international edition does not include the Preface, the Advertisement, or Appendix A (these sections are, however, included in the U.S. version of the book). Although this may seem detrimental, it isn\'t a very big deal. The first two sections mentioned aren\'t essential for learning the material.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7137,2552,'Angel Gomez','','','','2018-02-04 12:00:00','2018-02-04 12:00:00','The book is helpful. I suffered a lot in the class but the book helped me stay in track. There were a few times it was hard to follow',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7138,2552,'dyang','','','','2017-10-24 12:00:00','2017-10-24 12:00:00','This is the international edition which is drastically cheaper. The paper quality is a lot worse and the text is smaller but the content is the same as the original.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7139,2552,'Loi Huynh','','','','2018-01-06 12:00:00','2018-01-06 12:00:00','I ordered a new book but got an old/used book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7140,2552,'Adam Heninger','','','','2014-08-13 12:00:00','2014-08-13 12:00:00','Good content from Griffiths, but Pearson did a lousy job of the physical construction of the book.  It is already falling apart after one semester of use.  Really cheaply put together.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7141,2552,'Boyd Esleck','','','','2016-08-17 12:00:00','2016-08-17 12:00:00','Very clear and concise about the necessary topics. Cuts out unnecessary fluff and explains well.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7142,2552,'José Vinícius de Miranda Cardoso','','','','2013-07-26 12:00:00','2013-07-26 12:00:00','This is a classical book for electrical engineering students.<br>It has a good notation, good explanation, good examples and excellent problems.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7143,2552,'Student','','','','2017-02-25 12:00:00','2017-02-25 12:00:00','Great book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7144,2552,'Rafael B.','','','','2015-12-03 12:00:00','2015-12-03 12:00:00','Recommended reading.  My son likes it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7145,2552,'Vlad Ghita','','','','2013-04-25 12:00:00','2013-04-25 12:00:00','Credentials: Took a 4-credit course in  Intermediate Electrodynamics (upper-level college course) during the Spring 2013 semester.<br><br>Having no previous experience with the 3rd edition of the textbook by Griffiths, I cannot comment on any improvements in the current edition. However, I can say this much: Griffiths is very fond of his own notation. Some of it makes sense (like the cursive r=r-r\' to denote a relative position vector), while some of the overly formal representation with primed coordinates confused me most of the times.<br><br>Regarding the organization of material, the author does a good job of explaining physical concepts in words, while also showing clear mathematical derivations and examples with nicely explained solutions. The large amount of practice problems varies from plug-and-chug to incredibly difficult, both conceptually and mathematically. I was indeed challenged while solving problem sets for my course, mostly from a conceptual point of view (Electrodynamics is inherently non-intuitive, in sheer contrast to, say, Classical Mechanics). Overall, I would rate this as a very solid undergraduate text.<br><br>PS: I would not recommend this for self-study. This material is pretty heavy and a knowledgeable professor can make things easier! Whenever I skipped class, I found it hard to get back on track. Sadly, that has happened many times...<br><br>PPS: I do not like the fact that there is no answer key! If you are like me and enjoy checking your final answers you will understand what I\'m talking about. However, I can see why some professors prefer it this way, because it prevents cheating.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7146,2552,'Tendo Kaluma','','','','2019-05-20 12:00:00','2019-05-20 12:00:00','It has been a while since I sat in a Physics class, but many of the books we read as under graduates were always a level beyond where we were in complexity, considering Jackson -etal.  I had the pleasure of learning the topic from the Electrical Engineering Department where the Chen Book explored the practicality of the subject.  I thought David Griffith\'s book on Electrodynamics explained the Topic very well. The mathematics of vectors being used was quite helpful - especially on gauge theorem matters that give birth to both the cross and dot product including the many coordinate systems. David\'s  unique use of language gave us all a more pedestrian\'s glimpse into a very complex topic. I would recommend this book to all undergraduates doing Physics, his explanations help demystify the subject matter similar to what the Zill book does with  Differential Equations.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7147,2552,'BMW Racer','','','','2015-05-31 12:00:00','2015-05-31 12:00:00','Griffiths is a great source to go to for explanation, clarity and insight. I have three complaints in order of increasing severity: (1) the \"script r\" notation is a little irritating (though not confusing); I prefer r - r\', which is much clearer in many proofs involving 1/|r  - r\'|, etc. (2) I prefer cgs units. As Melvin Schwartz wrote, using different units for E and B is as absurd as measuring a location on Earth using degrees for latitude and radians for longitude. (3) Worst of all, I cannot stand the relegation of relativity to a footnote. This seems to be like an abortion of electrodynamics. I remain surprised how few texts follow Purcell in using relativity to derive the magnetic field, and I cannot forgive Griffiths for not doing so. Accordingly I prefer Schwartz or Ohanian. But Griffiths remains a FUN book to read.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7148,2500,'Tom T','','','','2023-06-26 12:00:00','2023-06-26 12:00:00','I bought because the preview of the first chapters had clear description of basics and definitions that one is always looking for.  As I start reading (far from done), it continues with an engaging and approachable style that works more on the \"what are you trying to do level than just the math.\"  Which I had this back in college days!!  Tremendous book!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7149,2500,'J. MOLDOVAN','','','','2010-09-16 12:00:00','2010-09-16 12:00:00','This is possibly the best textbook on any subject that I have ever read. And when I say read I mean cover to cover, several times! (The book is now so shabby and food stained that I\'m thinking of buying another copy.) The previous reviews have said it all but I want to summarize some quick points.<br><br>1. The footnotes and references are in a class of their own. You MUST read them to get full value. They contain a wealth of critical information.<br><br>2. The narrative style and method of explanation in this book makes me feel as though David Griffith is talking one-on-one to me alone. In my opinion he is peerless as a teacher!<br><br>3. The ability of this text to present some of the most complex mathematical material in an a simple, accessible and meaningful way using ordinary, jargon free language is just amazing. Of course particle physics is never going to be simple in laymen\'s terms but the ability to simplify the difficult ideas it contains as much as possible is critical for a student.<br><br>4. The ability of David Griffiths to make the subject - even at its most formal and driest points - exciting and alive is a rare and special skill.<br><br>5. The problems posed at the end of each section are the gateway to true understanding. They are clear, practical, have a definite educational purpose and are often fun to solve as well.<br><br>5. If you are affiliated with a university or other teaching institution and can get hold of the Solutions Manual, you MUST do so. It is a gem in itself and an essential part of the total \"David Griffiths\" experience.<br><br>Although this book is an absolute must if you are studying the subject and even if you are merely interested in it, there are a couple of minor quibbles that I need to bring to your attention.<br><br>Firstly, I would have loved to see a bit more on the fascinating subject of Renormalization and especially some of the deeper implications of Renormalization Theory. As it is the subject is treated in a very practical way and the book contains just enough material to enable one to solve the problems and to get on with other things. A little more would have been nice.<br><br>Secondly, and much more seriously, my copy of the book arrived with a double sided printout of 53 errata. These range from minor typos to complete show stoppers (if left uncorrected)! In fact there are so many of them, and they often have such serious effect on the text that I have broken a habit of a life-time and penciled in the corrections on the pages themselves. I would normally regard this as inexcusable vandalism but the constant referral to the errata sheet had become tiresome. I regard Wiley the publishers of this book to be one of the best technical publishers in the world and I can only guess at the glitch which let so many errors get through to the print stage. Having said this, once the errors are noted and corrected one can get back to the study and enjoyment of this fine work.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7150,2500,'Tanis Coralee Leonhardi','','','','2019-12-26 12:00:00','2019-12-26 12:00:00','I got this book before presenting at my first Geophysics conference. My first of two flights had been delayed and so I was one of the last people on the plane for the second flight and I ended up having to gate-check my bag for the conference with all of my presentation and conference clothes, registration, and other important information. When the gate assistant asked if I wanted to grab anything from my bag I opened it and grabbed just this book, not any of the other stuff… yeah I was excited for this. I put the book in my arm and got on the plane. As I made my way to my seat at the back of the plane, everyone was looking at me and giving me weird looks. I had gotten on a plane late before and that had not been the case. So I looked down and realized the front cover of the book was facing out. I quickly turned it around, so the front cover was facing me, and I got fewer looks the rest of the way to my seat. I enjoyed reading about elementary particles for the rest of the flight. Still can’t believe that was all I actually grabbed for the flight, that could have gone so wrong. Love the book, still have it. It and particle physics hold a special place in my heart.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7151,2500,'Syrtis Minor','','','','2014-04-19 12:00:00','2014-04-19 12:00:00','High Energy Physics would be fascinating even if it were not constantly in the news but even people with a smattering of Quantum Mechanics and strong quantitative backgrounds in general, such as engineers and applied mathematicians, find the subject impenetrable. The troubles begin upon opening any of the many painstakingly written texts on Quantum Field Theory. It all seems dreadfully contrived, especially the covariance of the formalism, and one can do all the exercises yet still be treading water when attempting to read the latest exciting news from Fermilab or CERN or...<br><br>Give this a try instead: read Griffiths once from cover to cover. Ignore all the excellent footnotes, references and exercises on your first reading.  Work through, line for line, Bjorken and Drell\'s 1964 \"Relativistic Quantum Mechanics\". It\'s readily accessible to the reader described in the first line of this review. You will then have covered a staggering amount of fantastic physics, and not a moment will have been wasted in your pursuit of a grasp of the latest screaming headlines about the Higgs and exotic hadrons. You will also have done a lot of the exquisite mathematical needlepoint that the real hep guys do 24/7.  Continue to graze in Griffiths. Over and over. Read every footnote, try some exercises, snoop around a few of the references. You may surprise yourself: you may even develop a critical streak.<br><br>The SM ? Bring it on.<br><br>Hint: a strange and noisy coffee shop is for me an easier place to concentrate than my quiet study at home.<br><br>Oh. Did I forget to say? This is such a good book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7152,2500,'Kevin R. Johnson','','','','2022-07-08 12:00:00','2022-07-08 12:00:00','Griffiths signature clear and welcoming style makes this an excellent introduction to this subject. Very similar to his electrodynamics book in that way. An excellent text for those new to this subject and reasonably current as well given all that has been happening in particle physics the last several years.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7153,2500,'Bavaruspex','','','','2013-11-25 12:00:00','2013-11-25 12:00:00','In my 35 years in physics, this is one of the very best textbooks that I have come across. If you’re interested in elementary particle theory, you’ll do yourself a huge favor to read this book. It provides a wonderfully approachable introduction to a rather esoteric and demanding field of physics, and I guarantee you’ll keep it, and continue to consult it, as you progress.<br>Anyone who ever wrote even a tutorial review article, let alone a textbook for students, appreciates the difficulties this involves. Professionals who wrote a lot of papers but never taught any class themselves tend to scoff at this notion, but personally mastering a subject is one thing; being able to teach it effectively to students requires considerable additional skills above and beyond being a subject matter expert.  And when it comes to teaching, Griffiths’ book is just about as good as it gets. Of course, the book is for (upper!) undergraduates. But its level has little to do with the fact that this is an exquisitely well written student text! Profs who think about writing particularly graduate texts would do very well to study the deeper didactic devices Griffiths uses and learn from his style. Students the world over will thank you for it – and are much more likely to buy your book!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7154,2500,'J. M. Newman','','','','2009-11-13 12:00:00','2009-11-13 12:00:00','Griffith\'s introductory book on the Standard Model of particle physics is a magnificently accessible overview of a very complex subject. The book covers all of the major topics, including the quark model, quantum electodynamics (subatomic level electromagnetic interactions), quantum chromodynamics (strong nuclear force interactions), Feynman diagrams (used to calculate information about particle interactions), electroweak theory (involved in nuclear decay processes). He also presents one of the most easily comprehensible discussions of quantum field theory I\'ve seen.<br>Griffith\'s writing style is engaging and entertaining, which is very unusual for an advanced physics text. The book is a pleasure to read even if you don\'t really understand the topics. It was good enough that I sat and read the whole book, end to end.<br>What this book does not have is detailed mathematical derivations of the theories presented. Griffiths provides references to books that contain the proofs and derivations, but he focuses solely on the whats and hows. Another unfortunate drawback is that the book doesn\'t contain solutions to the problems at the end of each chapter, which would have been nice to have.<br>To really appreciate the book, one should have a college level science background, but one doesn\'t need to be a full blown physicist or mathematician to appreciate the book (I am a professional chemist, and my mathematical background is not all that advanced). All in all, this is, in my opinion, the best introduction to the Standard Model that\'s out there.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7155,2500,'Eric','','','','2022-03-16 12:00:00','2022-03-16 12:00:00','The history of Earth in a very easy to read and understand book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7156,2500,'Matthew C.','','','','2008-12-04 12:00:00','2008-12-04 12:00:00','Griffith\'s book is a straight-forward and easy-to-follow introduction to particle physics. The book doesn\'t require the reader to have much background in particle physics, mostly just quantum mechanics and Lagrangian physics. Quantum field theory is definitely not necessary to learn from this book, although it\'ll probably be helpful.<br><br>The book focuses more on \"how\" rather than \"why,\" so it\'s a great starting point for experimentalists. Griffith\'s writes in a very casual and simple style; you won\'t find much mathematical jargon here. I\'d recommend this book over&nbsp;\n  \nQuarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    . Once you learn from this text the basics of the Standard Model and how to calculate amplitudes, cross-sections, decay rates, etc., you\'ll be ready to move on to more theoretical material (such as&nbsp;\n  \nQuarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    ) to answer the question of \"why.\"',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7157,2500,'Sir Walter Scott','','','','2015-01-05 12:00:00','2015-01-05 12:00:00','Unique in its union of advanced scope and intermediate audience, this textbook is described as an introduction to the standard model for upper year undergraduates.  Although I highly recommend this book, here are four points for prospective buyers - :<br><br>1. The treatment of the subject IS quantitative, although the first 2 chapters are entirely qualitative.<br><br>2. Assumed knowledge: special relativity (freshman level), quantum mechanics (sophomore), and electrodynamics (sophomore).<br><br>3. The development of the subject is incomplete in the sense that many derivations/proofs are omitted.  It is not for readers expecting a logically complete development of the subject from the bottom up.<br><br>4. The errata sheet (available from the publisher) will be needed.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7158,2500,'Dr. Manfred Ottow','','','','2010-05-24 12:00:00','2010-05-24 12:00:00','I\'ve just begun a wonderful voyage through the realms of the smallest entities of energy or matter (how ever one wants to see these building blocks of the world at large). Nobody, whatever the background, can remain calm and disengaged with professor Griffiths unfolding the spectrum of particles. It is his exceptional talent to word his messages such that they find their way directly to the grey cells of the reader. So far, for my way of thinking, the best written book on topics of physics was \"The Fabric of the Cosmos\" by Brian Green. Now there is a second book on this shelve of \"most pleasure to read\": \"Introduction to Elementary Particles\" by David J. Griffiths',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7159,2500,'vnhea','','','','2013-12-08 12:00:00','2013-12-08 12:00:00','A good cover-to-cover read. Every physics student should read this book before they take the physics GRE, or even just for fun. Griffiths is awesome.<br><br>The prereq for understanding this book probably falls around differential equations and basic linear algebra. You can definitely get a lot out of the book without knowing these, but in order to get most topics, you should have taken these classes. IIRC, some fourier transforms were involved, but not many. I would actually recommend reading it alongside other, more mathematically rigorous textbooks, just to actually understand the expectations and ideas of particle physics a bit better, but definitely get this one to show you ideas and histories better.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7160,2500,'Andrew','','','','2021-06-01 12:00:00','2021-06-01 12:00:00','Perfect for a first textbook in particle physics!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7161,2500,'Michael D. Broido','','','','2017-06-15 12:00:00','2017-06-15 12:00:00','Best Teaching Company course I have taken.  Well presented with the right level of detail.  Displays the key equations showing their form but does not dwell on the math.  Presents the latest results (thru 2016) and covers remaining problems/anomalies and research areas.  Explains the irreconcilabilty of quantum mechanics and general relativity.  Visual format superior over any audio - only one.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7162,2500,'d&amp;j gamers','','','','2019-10-07 12:00:00','2019-10-07 12:00:00','Begins with a nice review of the history of particle physics with reproductions of the published particle tracks that led to the current model.  A good text for someone breaking into the field.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7163,2500,'Cheopys','','','','2018-04-04 12:00:00','2018-04-04 12:00:00','Can’t say enough good about this.  I’m teaching myself physics and this is one book I read cover to cover and enjoyed every minute, and learned a lot.  The section on relativistic kinematics and collider theory stands out.  Griffiths is a great teacher',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7164,2500,'Chris','','','','2020-02-08 12:00:00','2020-02-08 12:00:00','This is an excellent book on fundamental particle physics for a student or any one with a mathematical background who wants to understand the field.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7165,2500,'puppypersonLOTR','','','','2010-02-15 12:00:00','2010-02-15 12:00:00','Doing physics homework is rarely truly fun, but a good textbook can at least reduce the stress and confusion/frustration levels associated with working problems and learning material.  This book is basically what I said in the title:  Helpful, clear, and readable, which are three things that are essential in any informational book yet sadly lacking in so many physics textbooks.  Excellent book.  Also, there are amusing footnotes sprinkled throughout the text, including some anecdotes/commentaries on physics pillars such as Niels Bohr.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7166,2500,'Paul B Kunasz','','','','2012-12-28 12:00:00','2012-12-28 12:00:00','This text breaks new ground as it is accessible to advanced undergrads.  It is well written, a pleasure to read.  In a few places, like the ad hoc use of langrangians in the gauge theory section, I would like to see more interpretation.  And I have seen more appealing presentations of Dirac\'s equation.  But, overall, I give this book an A.<br><br>Paul Kunasz',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7167,2500,'Sasha','','','','2016-09-26 12:00:00','2016-09-26 12:00:00','Love this book!! It\'s a great intro to Particle Physics. Griffiths is a amazing author that has written many physics text books. He makes the subject matter entertaining and enjoyable. Some of the text will have you laughing out loud (if you\'re a nerd like me). LOL',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7168,2500,'tahanson43206','','','','2010-05-04 12:00:00','2010-05-04 12:00:00','This is an impressive book, and I feel confident in recommending it based upon an initial careful scan.  I bought this book to assist with developing a project proposal, and I have not yet had a chance to use it due to competing demands for my time.  Never-the-less, I am confident I will be in good hands when I am ready to ask the Authors for their guidance.<br>(th)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7169,2500,'Mike','','','','2020-03-04 12:00:00','2020-03-04 12:00:00','One of the best books on particle physics that I’ve read to date!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7170,2500,'LS','','','','2018-05-18 12:00:00','2018-05-18 12:00:00','I bought this book to learn some basic QED for my own interest. The writer is phenomenal and I used to use his other books for courses.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7171,2500,'SBB','','','','2018-12-20 12:00:00','2018-12-20 12:00:00','I enjoy the textbooks by Griffiths. This book is great if you know undergraduate Quantum Mechanics and are familiar with Special Relativity.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7172,2500,'Nick Reilly','','','','2013-11-06 12:00:00','2013-11-06 12:00:00','Griffiths stricks again.  This man is amazing.  He is not only ridiculously smart, but knows how to help you learn topics that are ridiculously hard.  Most undergrads don\'t require this book.  I didnt, but I still bought and read this.  I loved it, and Griffiths is great.  buy it!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7173,2500,'S. Sager','','','','2016-12-29 12:00:00','2016-12-29 12:00:00','My 16 yr old son asked for this book for Christmas. He had been reading it daily since Christmas Day, he says \"this is a really good book\". I know strange gift request.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7174,2500,'BigDrM','','','','2013-10-15 12:00:00','2013-10-15 12:00:00','If you\'re looking for a book that gets into the nuts and bolts of Particles this is it. For me I found an abundance of information, some I knew and others I did not. I would recommend this to anyone trying to understand particles.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7175,2500,'Devi L. Adhikari','','','','2018-08-01 12:00:00','2018-08-01 12:00:00','I have read all three books written by Griffiths. Really amazing.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7176,2500,'Michelle','','','','2014-06-21 12:00:00','2014-06-21 12:00:00','Contains just the right amount of rigor for me. Other books dumbed it down too much, but this one assumes one has either an undergraduate degree in Physics or some advanced physics courses.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7177,2500,'L. Rees','','','','2013-01-30 12:00:00','2013-01-30 12:00:00','I got the book to see if I\'d like to use it for a special topics class. Griffiths has a reputation for writing clear books, and this is no exception. The level is advanced undergraduate.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7178,2500,'B.E.','','','','2016-09-21 12:00:00','2016-09-21 12:00:00','Great book so far.  Book arrived quickly, as described (US edition), and in good condition.  Thanks!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7180,2500,'John :-)','','','','2016-03-02 12:00:00','2016-03-02 12:00:00','I friggin love this book. The same quality you had in his other two is in this one. Absolutely delightful!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7181,2500,'Tonima Tasnim Ananna','','','','2013-02-23 12:00:00','2013-02-23 12:00:00','Every undergraduate particle course should use this book. It makes particle physics extremely accessible and fun. It should be helpful for graduate school too and I am definitely keeping my copy',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7182,2500,'Jan Schaafsma','','','','2016-10-31 12:00:00','2016-10-31 12:00:00','Excellent book, very well written with good insights into the significance of the underlying concepts.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7183,2500,'Vanderley Aguiar','','','','2018-11-23 12:00:00','2018-11-23 12:00:00','Essential!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7184,2500,'Shawn Wilkin','','','','2018-09-12 12:00:00','2018-09-12 12:00:00','Son Happy',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7186,2500,'texas ranger','','','','2013-01-21 12:00:00','2013-01-21 12:00:00','THE DR. FOUND THE TEXT BOOK INFORMATIONAL AS WELL AS BEING DETAILED. IT GUIDES THE EXPERT OR THE NOVICE TO READ WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO THEIR PARTICULAR NEEDS.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7187,2500,'Rexts','','','','2017-12-10 12:00:00','2017-12-10 12:00:00','No defect on arrival.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7189,2500,'Chris K.','','','','2014-03-18 12:00:00','2014-03-18 12:00:00','Griffiths, he\'s great. If you\'ve read and understood undergrad mechanics, e&amp;m (Griffiths), and quantum mechanics (Griffiths), then you\'re ready for this book and you\'ll know what to expect from Griffiths.<br><br>I like his wordy introduction  to the subject---he tells the history of particle mechanics like a story, thus making it easier to memorize the particle\'s names and properties. I\'m using this book as a backup to Perkins. Perkins flies through this stuff, Griffiths actually explains it.<br><br>The font size in this paper back print is kinda small, maybe 10 (pt).<br><br>Some of the information in this book is dated given the youth of the subject. Nonetheless, I\'m finding it to be a good introductory text.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7190,2500,'CKirk','','','','2016-01-05 12:00:00','2016-01-05 12:00:00','I bought this book as a fun read after getting though Stephen Hawking\'s \"A Brief History of Time\" and becoming fascinated with particle physics. I am an engineer and have a solid foundation in math so it was not an impossible read, but did find it quite challenging. The early chapters have a no-math history of particle physics, and then begin to become more and more complex, building on chapter-after-chapter of new conceptual and quantitative theory.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7191,2500,'irene','','','','2013-06-07 12:00:00','2013-06-07 12:00:00','The book was in very good state.<br>The only thing I dislike is that I had to pay another amount of money (10$) at the moment of the delivery, as transport taxes.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7193,2500,'Mr. C. D. Finlay','','','','2020-06-08 12:00:00','2020-06-08 12:00:00','This is on the whole a very good book for those who want to know the development of particle physics and also how to use Feynman diagrams to calculate particle decay rates and scattering cross sections. The explanation of how to calculate color factors in Quantum Chromodynamics is probably one of the clearest in any text book. Anyone who works through this book will have a good knowledge of how to calculate Feynman diagrams for any given Lagrangian (even one you might think of yourself :) ).<br><br>However the Feynman rules are just handed down from \'heaven\' as it were and no attempt is made to show where they come from. This is surprising as there are quite simple derivations using Fermi\'s Golden Rule which are available and that avoid the complications of quantum Field theory. Such derivations are included in books such as Halzen and Martin and Mark Thomson.<br><br>For this reason I can only give the book 4 stars',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7194,2500,'Lucas Haniel Gomes e Gomes','','','','2021-03-26 12:00:00','2021-03-26 12:00:00','O livro possui um conteúdo inestimável, o autor consegue passar um conteúdo técnico mas em linguagem pouco formal, o que facilita muito o gosto pelo estudo. Mas o preço que disso é que o livro não \"pega na mão do aluno\", se quiser mais detalhes sobre as contas, terá que faze-las ou buscar outra referência. Sobre o material, as folhas parecem um papel cartão, não sei que tipo de papel é, primeiro livro que compro com esse tipo, são de muita qualidade e tornam a gráfica ainda mais bonita. Apesar dos pontos fortes, a encadernação é uma decepção, não fazendo jus ao preço altíssimo. A capa não da robustez alguma ao livro, ele é extremamente \"molenga\", o que o deixa muito instável na estante, podendo cair facilmente e danificar o material com rasgos e amasso, não fazendo jus ao preço altíssimo dele em real.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7195,2500,'physics student','','','','2011-01-26 12:00:00','2011-01-26 12:00:00','\"Introduction to Elementary Particles\" has the merit that it gets one into the subject; and the details can be mopped up later.<br>It is somewhat weak in scholarship, and the understanding of the subject is, perhaps, not very strong.<br>It is quite like the author\'s book on electrodynamics in that regard. But both texts are useful,<br>especially in the hands of an instructor who knows what he is doing.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7196,2500,'PlasmaStorm','','','','2016-12-16 12:00:00','2016-12-16 12:00:00','Il testo è molto chiaro, la parte di diagrammi di Feynman e le relative equazioni nei nodi sono spiegate molto meglio che da altre parti. Non è però, come altri libri del Griffiths, una vera introduzione. Da infatti per scontato una certa precedente padronanza della materia. Secondo me non troppo rigoroso',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7197,2500,'Duncan Brain','','','','2013-11-23 12:00:00','2013-11-23 12:00:00','This stuff is somewhat advanced so if you buy it like I did to try and get ahead or learn something new, its nice to have but you might not understand it yet.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7198,2556,'Penelope','','','','2023-07-02 12:00:00','2023-07-02 12:00:00','I love the way Griffiths explains physics material. It is intuitive and integrated with the background math. He uses clear examples and explains everything, not leaving out information that might be deemed too \"high-level\" to skip over. I love all his textbooks but this one gives an especially intuitive understanding of Quantum physics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7199,2556,'LeeAnn Capistran','','','','2023-07-04 12:00:00','2023-07-04 12:00:00','The item came in really good condition despite being used and was sent out very fast. The content of the book have been helpful in teaching me about the topic.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7201,2556,'Mycroft','','','','2023-01-21 12:00:00','2023-01-21 12:00:00','I highly recommend this book for those with an interest in advanced physics. It is a succinct and informative read, however, it is important to note that a strong mathematical foundation, including proficiency in calculus, algebra, and proof-writing, is necessary to fully comprehend the material. Additionally, a basic understanding of classical mechanics and electrodynamics is beneficial, although not strictly required.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7202,2556,'MB','','','','2020-09-24 12:00:00','2020-09-24 12:00:00','Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, along with Griffiths’ other magnificent piece: Introduction to Electrodynamics; together, are two of the best undergraduate textbooks available.<br><br>Professor Griffiths’ approach in this one is pretty mathematical, though he doesn’t ever sacrifice conceptual reasoning for mathematical sophistication. Everything he says is perpetuated with concise explanations and purpose. What I find most remarkable is how Griffiths’ seems to know the reader personally; offering derivations or further explanation at the perfect time. The problem sets are not easy, for the most part. There is hardly any hand-holding, and solutions to the problems (written by Griffiths himself) are available online as PDFs.<br><br>As the third edition of this text, it is very modern. There is no worry of stumbling across outdated information. The overall visual presentation is pretty standard, but clean. The diagrams are always very helpful. The one (albeit minor) complaint I have is the deficit of example problems. There is usually only one per section, and I think some sections could certainly use more. Regardless, I would recommend this book to anyone with a foundation of multivariable calculus, some DE, and— of course— the classical mechanics prerequisite. It would probably be a good idea to know your vector calculus as well as electrodynamics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7204,2556,'CA','','','','2023-03-06 12:00:00','2023-03-06 12:00:00','New book; no surprises here.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7205,2556,'Jhih-Jheng Ke','','','','2021-01-29 12:00:00','2021-01-29 12:00:00','This book is very suitable as a textbook, but its writing style is not suitable for self-study. It needs to combine with the teacher\'s detailed formula deduction in the classroom to compliment the author\'s lack of deduction details, but this does not affect the value of this book as an introduction to beginners. This book is consistent in spirit in the deduction of harmonic oscillations and angular momentum, and at the same time has a good explanation of Dirac notation. This is of great help to students who study quantum chemistry but want to further understand quantum mechanics. Traditionally, quantum chemistry is more focus on wave functions than matrix mechanics, but the principles of molecular spectroscopy and the application of computational chemistry (such as NMR and DFT), Dirac notation and density matrix are too important. Dirac notation is often a major obstacle for students with chemistry background.<br><br>It is recommended to read with R. Shankar\'s book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7206,2556,'Mario Schlosser','','','','2022-02-28 12:00:00','2022-02-28 12:00:00','Great book, including for self study. Unlike other quantum mechanics textbooks that start with matrix mechanics, this book starts with the Schroedinger equation, but then ends up really nicely deriving everything else step by step. First part is theory, second part has lots of approximations and techniques like perturbation theory. The only aspect I would have loved to see more discussion of is quantum entanglement. The electron spin singlet state falls out of some nice derivation but doesn\'t even get called entangled until much later; the EPR paradox and the Bohm inequality are in the afterword. Other than that, great content, and really fun and engaging writing style.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7208,2556,'Ethan Doerstling','','','','2022-08-21 12:00:00','2022-08-21 12:00:00','Came in good time and good condition.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7209,2556,'Eskay','','','','2019-04-27 12:00:00','2019-04-27 12:00:00','The subject of Quantum theory is never easy to assimilate. Several readings and multiple books references provides the first gist for the thought mill to begin churning to the next stage. In perusing the major content of the book, I have only crossed the rubicon and need to go miles. However, the subject in influential in the era when quantum computing is knocking at the door and a book connecting the dots between physics with implied purity of thoughts and engineering where thoughts are distilled is required. This book does not serve the latter nor is it intended. Time worth spent. Yet miles to go,',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7210,2556,'Claire','','','','2020-06-19 12:00:00','2020-06-19 12:00:00','she doesn\'t like the illustration on the back but she and I both find the content very well-written and the author has an accessible style and good sense of humor. definitely recommend books by this author. just don\'t show the back cover to a cat lover.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7211,2556,'Jon','','','','2022-02-24 12:00:00','2022-02-24 12:00:00','amazing book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7212,2556,'Ajeet Gary','','','','2018-10-01 12:00:00','2018-10-01 12:00:00','The author is great, he\'s clear and witty. However the problems aren\'t all really doable with what they tell you, that is, they don\'t give you enough explanation in the text to be able to solve problems. My classmates and I keep finding ourselves with no idea how to proceed on problems it gives, even if we\'ve read over the text for that chapter several times.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7213,2556,'Learner','','','','2020-01-26 12:00:00','2020-01-26 12:00:00','Griffiths\' textbook is definitely the best one among numerous introductions to Quantum Mechanics. The 3rd edtion is still worth to buy, as Griffiths adds up two more chapters, a couple of sections, and nearly (maybe) 100 new promblems.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7214,2556,'Clara','','','','2021-07-15 12:00:00','2021-07-15 12:00:00','Exelente! Recibido antes de lo esperado!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7215,2556,'Angela E Porter','','','','2020-11-11 12:00:00','2020-11-11 12:00:00','A nice book but way beyond my level!!  I will return 😉',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7216,2556,'John Heath','','','','2019-03-06 12:00:00','2019-03-06 12:00:00','Used this for sophomore physics at Caltech. This book is mostly how I learned quantum mechanics, and it was really helpful, although many of the main results are for YOU to prove.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7217,2556,'Kindle Customer','','','','2020-02-13 12:00:00','2020-02-13 12:00:00','Well written and updated topics and complete steps allowing for self study.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7218,2556,'christopher','','','','2020-05-22 12:00:00','2020-05-22 12:00:00','Just migrants. Which means is good for learning science.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7219,2556,'Brian D.','','','','2020-02-21 12:00:00','2020-02-21 12:00:00','Until I open the book I\'m both perfectly happy and miserable.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7220,2556,'William F. Arnold','','','','2020-05-13 12:00:00','2020-05-13 12:00:00','perfect for self study. starred problems are very nice.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7221,2556,'zxiao','','','','2019-11-02 12:00:00','2019-11-02 12:00:00','The book is really useful and understandable.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7222,2556,'Wiley P. Kirk','','','','2019-09-04 12:00:00','2019-09-04 12:00:00','Very well written book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7223,2556,'Claudio J. Garcia','','','','2020-02-10 12:00:00','2020-02-10 12:00:00','On-time',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7224,2556,'Taaj Onabanjo','','','','2019-05-04 12:00:00','2019-05-04 12:00:00','Timeliness appreciated.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7225,2556,'Anthony T. Lam, DMD','','','','2023-01-10 12:00:00','2023-01-10 12:00:00','While not as good as his EM book, which to be fair is a very high bar to clear, this is good if you have a good professor to guide you through QM for the first time. There are two ways of approaching QM: the Shrodinger equation or the matrix mechanics of Heisenberg. Most students will find Schrodinger\'s more intuitive as wave equations and differential equations are more familiar to the average physics student at least it was for me. The other way requires some familiarity with linear algebra which is not as intuitive but equally powerful if not more so. The books that take this approach are by Shankar and Sakurai at a more advanced level and Townsend at the junior undergrad level.<br>If you are learning on your own or have a professor lacking in teaching ability, I recommend the excellent lecture videos on youtube by Brant Carlson. They can be found under the title Carthage PHY4200 or under his name. His lectures are faithful to the book and I found them to be very clear and Dr Carlson solves some problems in the lectures. Of course, you MUST do the exercises in the book on your own to really understand the material as physics is learning by doing and not a spectator sport.<br>Interestingly, I got my copy of this textbook because the previous owner somehow was so frustrated with it that s/he tore the binding at the index of the book. Luckily, it was an easy fix with some clear packing tape and I have an otherwise very good condition hardcover for $25.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7226,2556,'Mariah','','','','2018-12-08 12:00:00','2018-12-08 12:00:00','The negative reviews are surprising to me. Griffiths\'s quantum mechanics is a spectacularly straightforward approach to a complicated subject matter, with troves of information. Problems are laid out to often give you *precisely* what you need to solve a problem (for example, there was even a reminder on how to complete the square to simplify the integral on one problem). Seems possibly mean to say, but if the math is too hard, you need more math. This is quantum mechanics, not introductory Newtonian mechanics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7227,2556,'Cheopys','','','','2018-10-24 12:00:00','2018-10-24 12:00:00','Griffiths is second only to Jim Baggott in explaining QM without dropping the essential math.  But Griffiths goes a lot deeper.  I already have the Second Edition but couldn’t resist this update; at an age where re-reading books doesn’t seem like a great idea anymore this is one I’m looking forward to curling up with.<br><br>Griffiths’ rigorous treatments are clear and compelling but you don’t need a doctorate to read and enjoy.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7228,2556,'Samuel Chen','','','','2019-10-28 12:00:00','2019-10-28 12:00:00','I am currently a research in quantum computing. This book is the text I used when I was in physics undergraduate program. This book is simply awesome. It introduced important concepts clearly and did not overwhelmed reader with too many advanced topics. I recommend all serious students do all the problems on this book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7230,2556,'CHANDRA RAMAN','','','','2021-06-23 12:00:00','2021-06-23 12:00:00','Excellent Service.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7231,2556,'Preston Climer','','','','2022-12-26 12:00:00','2022-12-26 12:00:00','While I own multiple books on quantum theory that handle the subject at a more advanced level with deeper mathematical rigor, I cannot fault this book for being what it is for its target audience.<br><br>This is THE book on quantum mechanics that deservedly sets a benchmark for which all other undergraduate quantum theory textbooks shall compare. It essentially starts off with Schrodinger\'s equation, but then the way it derives the fundamental theorems of quantum theory is unbelievably done well for the level this book is intended for, whether it be the normalization condition, the \"ladder of states\" for the harmonic oscillator, hermitian operators, Dirac notation, the canonical commutation relation, general uncertainty principle (from which comes the Heisenberg uncertainty principle), or the Pauli exclusion principle.<br><br>It then follows this by expressing the applications of perturbation theory, WKB approximation, scattering, atomic theory for hydrogen and helium, as well as further analysis within quantum dynamics.<br><br>The book finishes with a nice overview of linear algebra as needed for this level of quantum theory.<br><br>I should add that this book is also, in general, a good book for those interested in the applications of Fourier analysis, as much of this book covers Fourier integrals, as native to the properties of the wavefunction. It is not a coincidence that the derivation of the uncertainty principle comes right after a fairly extensive coverage of quantum Fourier analysis from the statistical interpretation of position-space and momentum-space relations.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7232,2556,'Satvik Perumalla','','','','2023-08-04 12:00:00','2023-08-04 12:00:00','It\'s a standard book for Quantum Mechanics',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7233,2556,'Evan Olsen','','','','2023-04-29 12:00:00','2023-04-29 12:00:00','The best textbook i think on quantum mechanics the standard if you want to master quantum theory.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7235,2556,'Sunny Singh Minhas','','','','2023-05-13 12:00:00','2023-05-13 12:00:00','Good for besic study of class 8 to 9 students',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7238,2556,'Howie','','','','2021-01-18 12:00:00','2021-01-18 12:00:00','Loved how it is presented.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7239,2556,'\"loquacitor\"','','','','2020-02-04 12:00:00','2020-02-04 12:00:00','This book provides a nominal textbook coverage of QM for undergrads. Explanations are fairly clear and has some example problems. A little weak on EPR observables and correlation.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7240,2556,'Hector Chacon','','','','2020-07-09 12:00:00','2020-07-09 12:00:00','Llegó en mal estado.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7241,2556,'Zoe Stokes','','','','2023-05-11 12:00:00','2023-05-11 12:00:00','It\'s a really good textbook but I have to take one star away for the dead cat on the back cover.  It always makes me sad when I see it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7243,2556,'Aidan C.','','','','2023-01-14 12:00:00','2023-01-14 12:00:00','This textbook is a classic and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the math behind quantum mechanics.<br>However, my copy must\'ve been attacked by ninjas or maybe rabid dogs on the way to my house because the cover was all beaten up when I pulled it out of the delivery box.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7244,2556,'Ycs','','','','2022-09-15 12:00:00','2022-09-15 12:00:00','Overall good only issue - cover not shine and neat',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7245,2556,'jjm','','','','2021-08-14 12:00:00','2021-08-14 12:00:00','Pour une introduction le livre est assez difficile d\'abord .',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7246,2556,'Yash V.','','','','2021-11-11 12:00:00','2021-11-11 12:00:00','Overall the book was in very good condition from inside but outside cover was little torned<br>But from inside the context was in very good condition',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7247,2556,'SD&amp;uAlberta','','','','2021-01-16 12:00:00','2021-01-16 12:00:00','Hi, everything for the book itself is great. The delivery was also faster than I thought. The only disappointing thing was taht the courier put the package into the mailbox in a rude way but luckily there was no damage.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7248,2556,'Morpheus','','','','2020-08-16 12:00:00','2020-08-16 12:00:00','I ordered it in May and it just arrived in August.  I must assume it was shipped by kayak from Australia.<br><br>Other than the wait and a slightly bent corner (shark damage?), it\'s still a fantastic book and is in otherwise good condition.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7249,2556,'Jesús Blas','','','','2021-06-06 12:00:00','2021-06-06 12:00:00','El libro llegó en muy buenas condiciones y un día antes del día previsto. Sin embargo, a pesar de ser de pasta dura, como el libro no venía fijo dentro de la caja de entrega las esquinas llegaron un poco maltratadas. Además, venía un poco sucio; es un detalle que merece la pena.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7251,2556,'Pousali Ganguly','','','','2020-10-27 12:00:00','2020-10-27 12:00:00','Awesome book no doubt. But i would prefer students to buy the book of R.Shankar because explanations in Griffiths is very concise and not for beginners. Griffiths is an awesome books both in understanding and mathematical sense. 👌👌',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7252,2556,'G.k.Nayak','','','','2021-07-07 12:00:00','2021-07-07 12:00:00','Value of money. I get it in 370 . But Binding of the book is Bad',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7253,2556,'Rajat Raj','','','','2021-05-26 12:00:00','2021-05-26 12:00:00','Alignment of lines in certain pages is not upto the mark.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7254,2556,'Ezio A. Menichetti','','','','2019-01-30 12:00:00','2019-01-30 12:00:00','Good introductory text.  This new edition is quite improved  and enlarged, still conforming to the usual mix of math + conceptual wich is a trademark of Griffiths. Very  good.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7256,2556,'Arbina Kureshi','','','','2020-12-22 12:00:00','2020-12-22 12:00:00','Best book for msc',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7257,2556,'Kindle Customer','','','','2020-08-05 12:00:00','2020-08-05 12:00:00','Good book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7258,2556,'Alba Cortés','','','','2019-09-07 12:00:00','2019-09-07 12:00:00','Es un buen libro introductorio para alguien que sabe lo suficiente de física y matemática',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7259,2472,'Gary','','','','2021-07-31 12:00:00','2021-07-31 12:00:00','In Memoriam:<br>Steven Weinberg (May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021).<br><br>This is a sad occasion, writing this book review one week after the passing of physicist Steven Weinberg. Having been a lifelong student and admirer of Weinberg, there was no way I was going to ignore his book of lectures on astrophysics. It is dense. It is terse. It is challenging. However, Weinberg does not promise anything that he can not deliver. As is his custom, Weinberg stresses the interplay between theory and experiment, how to arrive at numbers. Interestingly, dimensional analysis is used in various circumstances (pages 42-49). You get a derivation of relativistic equilibrium condition (page 68, also, you are referred to his 1972 tome on General Relativity for alternative derivation). Tools of the trade include the oft-utilized method of \"integration-by-parts\" and the oft-utilized \"power series expansion.\"  I enjoy section #2.1: \"how observations are used to find the properties of binary stars.\" (page 83). You derive inequalities (examples: tidal distortion, page 87, maximum luminosity, page 149 and Schwarz inequality, page 190).<br>You will get a review of gravitational radiation in preparation for a discussion of LIGO (pages 98-104).<br>There is a discussion of HII regions (ionized Hydrogen surrounding stars): it is insightful, lucid and easy to follow (see section #3.2). You will learn something new as you consider effects of viscosity in gas rotating around an axis of symmetry (pages 150-153). A discussion of Galaxies concludes the lectures, recall the Boltzmann equation and Euler equations of hydrodynamics, while learning that \"the formalism presented above allows the construction of equilibrium distribution functions for galaxies in clusters and for dark matter.\" (page 178). A motivation to peruse this book, according to Weinberg, is the opportunity to bring his earlier book up-to-date (1972, Gravitation and Cosmology). Because my personal library holds many of Steven Weinberg\'s bibliographic references, the lectures were easier to assimilate than they might otherwise have been. There is more here to learn and I intend to learn it: if for no other reason than to pay homage to a brilliant physicist, a fine teacher and a fine human being.<br>He will surely be missed.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7260,2472,'TSR','','','','2020-02-27 12:00:00','2020-02-27 12:00:00','Not for plebs who want a casual read but are able to engage the material in a technical way. Not like his First Three Minutes but as the book says these are lectures in the best of tradition, think Chandrasekhar, Eddington, Peebles, etc. Very mathematical but the physics is not lost in the masterly crispness of exposition. I found that reading his semi-popular works immensely helps in reading some of the more technical works.<br><br>Update -<br>It\'s sad to have lost Steven Weinberg. It feels personal somehow. He was from a generation that sported greats like Feynman, Wheeler, Schwinger, and all the others from the post-war generation. As a Physicist, only a great physicist may comment on his greatness but I do think that he was a great man based on his scientific writings for the public. Richard Dawkins rightly called him \'A real public intellectual in an era where the term intellectual is bandied about\'. For me reading his book The First Three Minutes was an eye opener of how great physicists think but also helps convey deep and unintuitive knowledge in a way that\'s not jargon driven but hits the mark every time. Never one to talk down to his audience, his books are a friend holding your hand. Where he is technical, he implicitly considers you to be fluent in mathematics to follow the scientific argument.<br><br>To \'Explain the world\' will seal Weinberg as not only a physicist of great measure but equally in his immense writing skills to comment on its historical evolution. That\'s rare. Physics or its History is usually the preserve of specialists in one field or the other but not both as a Physicist and Historian of Science.  As a historian, he\'s in the class of Pais who was like him both but I feel Steven Weinberg was clearly the greater physicist (based on his unification work) and given his breadth and depth of span in this field. I mean the list is like everything!! Particle, Relativity, Cosmology, QM, QFT, Semi-Technical writing. The man was a monster mind in the class of the front-line physicists like Heisenberg, Einstein, Eddington, or Schrodinger',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7261,2472,'Dr. Astrophysics','','','','2020-02-18 12:00:00','2020-02-18 12:00:00','good',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7263,2472,'Lilli55','','','','2020-01-30 12:00:00','2020-01-30 12:00:00','Das für ein Buch über Astrophysik mit etwas über 200 Seiten recht schmale Buch ist aus den Notizen einer Vorlesungsreihe entstanden. Damit erhebt es nicht den Anspruch alle wesentlichen Themen der Astrophysik zu behandeln. Wer ein umfassendes Lehrbuch erwartet, sollte eher eins der diesbezüglichen Standardwerke erwerben. In diesem Buch werden aber eine Reihe von sehr interessanten astrophysikalischen Themen einschließlich der Gravitationswellen behandelt. Wer mal das Glück hatte, einen Kurs bei Steven Weinberg zu hören, wird seine präzise, hochkompetente Darstellung hier wiederfinden. Als Kenntnisse sollte der Leser die Mathematik eines viersemestrigen Grundkurses, Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik und der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie mitbringen. Damit sollte er der Führung dieses überragenden Theoretischen Physikers beim Streifzug durch die Astrophysik folgen und seine Darstellung genießen können.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7264,2472,'Simon Sirca','','','','2021-05-27 12:00:00','2021-05-27 12:00:00','A broad spectrum of astrophysical topics covered in a succinct yet precise manner.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7265,2472,'ARMANDO BEZERRA DE BRITO','','','','2021-04-09 12:00:00','2021-04-09 12:00:00','O livro é uma “pincelada” num assunto tão vasto. O autor não precisa de mais apresentação; Weinberg, ganhador de Prêmio Nobel. Ótimo livro.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7266,2474,'Juan L.','','','','2023-03-03 12:00:00','2023-03-03 12:00:00','In order to fully appreciate the content of Weinberg\'s  book, one needs  to study Paul Dirac\'s Quantum Mechanics or Albert Messiah\'s Quantum Mechanics before hand. Beginners will have difficulty appreciating the physics behind the mathematical rigor (ie. abstractness). Weinberg took the same approach as Dirac in discussing the complexity of quantum mechanics. However Weinberg discussed additional topics not found in standard quantum mechanics books; such as different  interpretation of the quantum world, Open systems using density matrix, quantum measurements, quantum entanglement, Berry phase, Rabi oscillations, Feynman\'s path integral formulation, gauge invariance, quantum computation. I gained a better  understanding of quantum physics from Weinberg\'s exposition during the course of my research on the foundation of quantum mechanics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7268,2474,'Jimmy','','','','2021-07-24 12:00:00','2021-07-24 12:00:00','I am starting the second semester undergrad QM class, and this text fills in a lot of the questions I had on problems we encountered in the first class.  For a grad class it would be just right to help fill in some of the background needed and math derivations for equations and problem solutions in the class.  clearly written, but it assumes a strong background to understand.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7269,2474,'EHM','','','','2016-08-05 12:00:00','2016-08-05 12:00:00','Weinberg\'s \"Lectures on QM\" is an excellent, graduate level text on the quantum mechanics that, among other things, will prepare you for studying quantum field theory. The book is authoritative, and very clearly written. Some highlights: (1)  He includes some fascinating topics not easily found in other QM texts. These include a very clear discussion of the Heisenberg \'matrix mechanics method\' at the beginning of the book, and Pauli\'s algebraic solution of the energy levels of the hydrogen atom. (2) The book is very valuable for allowing one to see how Weinberg approaches and formulates solutions for standard introductory quantum mechanical problems (the \'easy\' problems). (3) Weinberg\'s discussion of the interpretations of QM is the clearest and most detailed I have seen anywhere. (4) His chapter on isospin symmetry and its generalization is a very clear introduction to the use of symmetry in QFT. Also, his discussion of symmetry breaking in non-relativistic vs. relativistic cases is quite nice.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7270,2474,'Frank ','','','','2022-04-20 12:00:00','2022-04-20 12:00:00','While there are a multitude of QM textbooks available for students and experts, Steven Weinberg\'s book<br>is still a great addition to the existing QM books.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7271,2474,'Robert B. Decker','','','','2021-08-12 12:00:00','2021-08-12 12:00:00','Excellent text for new students and experienced physicists. Weinberg\'s insight into the essential physics of quantum mechanics is unmatched by other texts with similar titles.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7272,2474,'mlc','','','','2017-07-29 12:00:00','2017-07-29 12:00:00','The book arrived on time and is new.  Weinberg knows exactly what to put in a book on Quantum Mechanics.  It covers a lot of topics, traditional as well as modern.  It is advanced and seems like a good sequel to Merzbacher\'s QM.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7274,2474,'Rocket Scientist','','','','2018-06-21 12:00:00','2018-06-21 12:00:00','I met professor Weinberg while I was working on my Ph.D. at UTD. This text is a great study aid while taking quantum mechanics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7275,2474,'Siegfried','','','','2018-08-13 12:00:00','2018-08-13 12:00:00','it is an interesting and modern book in quantum mechanics for undergrads and grads',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7276,2474,'peterzheng','','','','2018-08-26 12:00:00','2018-08-26 12:00:00','Nice book on advanced QM!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7277,2474,'Farhad','','','','2018-01-29 12:00:00','2018-01-29 12:00:00','Great book with awesome packaging quality.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7278,2474,'Gary','','','','2018-04-13 12:00:00','2018-04-13 12:00:00','This is a text that I enjoy very much. Either the first or second edition is well-worth study. However, I note, the textbook does seem a bit rushed. However, the more I revisit the book, the better it gets !<br>(1) Read: \"the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics was controversial from the beginning, to the present there continues to be a tension between the probabilistic interpretation and the deterministic evolution of the wave function.\" (page 30). That  line concludes chapter one, historical introduction. Read of Max Born and Pascual Jordan\'s  \"mathematically fallacious derivation\" (page 20) and dark energy, too (page 24). The third exercise here is interesting: \"suppose the photon had three polarization states, rather than two. What difference would that make in the relations between Einstein\'s A and B coefficients ?\" That is a very good question !<br>(2) Solutions to Schrodinger equation precedes a general discussion of \'general principles of quantum mechanics.\' So, what is here, chapter two, is a crash-course in Hydrogen atom, harmonic oscillator, central potentials. In effect, a recapitulation of solutions of differential equations by special functions. Happily, harmonic oscillator is re-introduced later (page 149), by way of symmetry. Exercise two is of some interest: \"derive a formula for the rate of single-photon emission from the 2p to the 1s state of Hydrogen.\" Student exercises placed at the end-of-chapter.<br>(3) Third up, General Principles. Here, the text gets interesting. Regrettably, Dirac\'s \'Bra-Ket\' notation is mentioned only in passing. Weinberg writes: \"The notation we use is commonly used by mathematicians.\" (page 60). It is an easy exercise (and I do it) to translate Weinberg\'s notation into Dirac\'s Bra-Ket notation (for instance, equations 3.1.16 and 3.1.17, page 60). An interesting discussion of delta-functions, that is, distributions follows. If you cannot instantly derive equation #3.2.22, page 64, then, no need to continue further until such is accomplished ! Symmetries introduced in section 3.4. Weinberg writes: \"much of this can be learned from fundamental principles of symmetry, without recourse to classical mechanics.\" (page 74). Dyadic notation does not resonate with me (page 71). Third chapter concludes with this: \".. that today there is no interpretation of quantum mechanics that does not have serious flaws...in my view, we ought to take seriously the possibility of finding some more satisfactory other theory.\" (page 102).<br>(4) Regards spin: \" this internal angular momentum came to be called the electron\'s spin...at first this idea was widely disbelieved.\" (page 104). Then, read: \"There is nothing about spin that requires relativity to be taken into account, and nothing about relativity that requires elementary particles to have spin one-half.\" (page 106). Now, think about that ! Why ? Because that is something that is very often obfuscated ! This is a lucid discussion of fundamentals. Discussion of Stern-Gerlach is brief, yet insightful (page 116). Internal Symmetries: \"leaving spacetime coordinates unaffected.\" gets further elaboration (pages 141-150).<br>What we learn of rigid-rotator model is excellent companion to the discussion in Arno Bohm\'s text (1979, chapter three). The problem sets vary in difficulty: \"A particle of isospin one decays into an anti-Kaon and a Kaon. Assume that isospin is conserved in the decay. What is the ratio of the rates of decay processes...\" (page 168). We met the Kaon previously in a discussion of invariance under space-inversion (page 153). Note, not every exercise is difficult: exercise #2, page 167, is merely a derivation of a vector-identity.<br>(5) Broken Symmetry (section 5.8) is discussed. Here, meet the Ammonia molecule. This is an interesting discussion. For another physical description, turn to The Feynman Lectures (Volume 3, 8-11). Weinberg:<br> \"a general feature of spontaneous symmetry breaking... it is always associated with systems that in some sense are very large.\" (page 207).<br>(6) Fluctuations (section 6.5): an exceptional discussion. You get it more than once. Here, one derivation (pages 222-224)  and a more accurate derivation later (final chapter, pages 380-387). That is surely good pedagogy ! That is, a multi-pronged approach. That multi-staged approach is utilized in the discussion of  density matrix: introduced on page 72, discussed later for open systems (page 237). That spiral approach comes in handy when Weinberg mentions probability: First introduced section 1.5 (pages 24-30), then, an elaboration when discussing multiple scattering (page 257) and charged-particles (page 350). Weinberg is always reiterating conservation of probability (which, by the way, is both explicitly and implicitly emphasized).<br>(7) Weinberg, on Lagrangians: \"The great advantage of the Lagrangian formalism is that it provides a simple connection between symmetry principles and the existence of conserved quantities.\" (page 327). From there to Hamilton, then constraints. The section on constrained Hamiltonian systems is exceptional. Read: \" Dirac\'s assumption yields the same equations of motion as provided by the classical Lagrangian for this model.\" Then, an excursion into Feynman path integrals. That excursion concludes the chapter. What is here on path integrals is brief, Shankar will provide more (1994). Weinberg:  \"...there is a troubling weirdness about quantum mechanics, perhaps its weirdest feature is entanglement.\" Regarding end-of-chapter problem sets, many are quite challenging. Exercises are comparable to Merzbacher\'s text.<br>(8) Bringing my personal view to an end: I note the exposition is terse (contrast Shankar or Merzbacher).<br>Footnotes are instructive, examples: Born, Heisenberg, Jordan upgraded from one to three-dimensions (page 23), factorization and symmetry (page 38), infinite-dimensional proof (page 67), Dirac and holes (pages 84 and 153) and considerations of spacetime symmetry (page 132). The text is aimed at graduate level, so you had better know prerequisites (say, Griffiths). Mark Srednicki writes \"text is...for those who have had a good undergraduate introduction.\" (Physics Today). That prerequisite is necessary, but, likely insufficient !  I feel the text works best as a prelude to Weinberg\'s  marvelous textbooks of Quantum Field Theory. The preface: \"... numerous examples from elementary particle physics.\"<br>There is much to learn in Steven Weinberg\'s lectures.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7279,2474,'potatocake','','','','2018-08-01 12:00:00','2018-08-01 12:00:00','As previous reviewers have said, Weinberg\'s book is excellent for somebody with previous exposure to QM, and as rigorous as possible (for a book at this level).<br><br>I would just like to add that there are a surprising number of applications in this book: the Lande g-factor, rigid rotor, even Landau levels, Bloch theorem, and Fermi/Bose occupation levels, which all three of which I did not expect to find. Even an introduction to quantum computation! As such, this book is excellent as a reference, and not just for purists.<br><br>Finally, Weinberg notes that he purposely left out the Dirac equation and relativistic QM (standard graduate material) because they are better learned in the unified context of QFT. Though this is true, perhaps somebody just wants people to buy his QFT books ;)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7281,2474,'Iouri A. Kamychkov','','','','2017-02-26 12:00:00','2017-02-26 12:00:00','Great',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7282,2474,'Dr. T.','','','','2019-02-23 12:00:00','2019-02-23 12:00:00','Steven Weinberg ist Professor für Physik an der Universität von Texas in Austin, er erhielt 1979 gemeinsam mit Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow den Nobelpreis für  seine Beiträge zu einer vereinheitlichten Theorie der schwachen und elektromagnetischen Wechselwirkung; von ihm stammt u.a. eine dreibändige Monographie zur Quantenfeldtheorie, darüber hinaus engagiert sich Weinberg für die Popularisierung der modernen Physik und er Wissenschaft im allgemeinen. Von ihm stammen eine ganze Reihe exzellenter populärer Bücher, darunter  \'The First Three Minutes\', \'The Discovery of Subatomic Particles\' und \'Dream of a Final Theory\'.<br><br>Die Darstellung basiert auf Vorlesungen die Autor an der Universität von Austin gehalten hat, zwar gibt es dazu zahlreiche ausgezeichnete Texte, einschließlich Diracs \'Lectures …\', aber keiner entsprach so recht der beabsichtigten Themenauswahl, wie der Autor im Vorwort feststellt. Entsprechend ist der Umfang so dimensioniert, dass das Material für einen einjährigen Kurs für Graduierte ausreicht, die Kapitel sind in Abschnitte gegliedert, die jeweils etwa 75 minütigen Vorlesungen entsprechen.<br><br>Ohne große Umschweife führt Weinberg physikalische Zustände als Vektoren eines Hilbertraums ein, wobei er auf die bra-ket Notation verzichte, die er für geschickt (awkward) hält. Um dieses Setup didaktisch ein wenig abzumildern, sind ihm je ein Kapitel zur Geschichte der Quantenmechanik, und zur Schrödingerschen Wellengleichung, und deren Anwendung auf das Wasserstoffatom, vorangestellt. Es folgen Spin Systeme, bevor Approximationen, einschließlich der von zeitabhängigen Problemen, Streuung an Potentialen, und die allgemeine Streutheorie in aller Ausführlichkeit behandelt werden. Im folgenden werden Lagrange Formalismus und kanonische Relationen behandelt und auf geladene Teilchen im elektromagnetischen Feld und die Quantentheorie der Strahlung angewandt. Weinberg betont unter anderem die  Symmetrie Prinzipien mehr, als das sonst üblich  ist, da sie die Rolle der Kommutator Relationen transparenter werden lassen.<br><br>In vielen Büchern wird die  als relativistische Verallgemeinerung der Schrödinger Gleichung behandelt, eine Ansicht, die Weinberg für irrführend hält, statt als Wahrscheinlichkeitsamplitude, sieht er die die Diracsche Wellenfunktion in natürlicher Weise als Matrixelement eines Quantenfeldes, zum Übergang eines ein- Teilchen Zustands ins Vakuum, an. Um einerseits keine zu große Überschneidung mit seinen QFT Werken zu erhalten, andererseits aber auch den gesteckten Umfang des Buch nicht zu sprengen, verzichtet der Autor – ohne Bedauern --  ganz auf die Behandlung der relativistischen Quantenmechanik.<br><br>Das gesamte Buch lebt von der Brillanz des Autors, die Darstellung ist präzise, oft knapp, und Ausdruck von Weinbergs ganz eigenem Stil, das macht die Lektüre nicht immer ganz leicht, da die Entwicklungen gern die gewohnte Pfade verlassen. Die Originalität der Ausführung zeigt sich nicht zuletzt bei dem oft stiefmütterlich behandelten  Thema der Interpretation der QM, wo oft nur lieblos die Kopenhagener Deutung repetiert wird, untersucht der Autor verschieden Auffassungen. Gerade bei der Abfassung der zweiten Edition, wurde Weinberg bewusst, dass keine der Varianten so recht zufriedenstellen kann, und so wurde dieser Abschnitt in der neuen Ausgabe mit am umfangreichsten erweitert -- kaum jemand hat die Probleme so präzise in einer Frage zusammengefasst: \'Woher kommen die Wahrscheinlichkeiten in der Quantenmechanik?\' – denn aus der Schrödingergleichung können ja die Bornschen Regeln nicht ableitet werden. Die Beschäftigung mit dieser Frage hat Weinberg sogar veranlasst, seine Überlegungen allgemein verständlich in dem Essay \'The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics\' (in: Third Thoughts) dazulegen.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7283,2474,'ArvindK. ','','','','2021-01-31 12:00:00','2021-01-31 12:00:00','The hard bound book is a pleasure to read. Weinberg is an acknowledged master, so there is always something new that one learns from him, even though there are so many other good texts on quantum mechanics. His introductory history chapter is very instructive, like a similar chapter in his QFT books. The treatment in the rest of the book again shows the characteristic thoroughness of his writings.<br>I only wished he had used Dirac notation for convenience of students,though by not using it, he has removed the widely prevalent misconception that Dirac notation is a must for abstract formulation of QM.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7285,2474,'EngMechguy','','','','2016-03-16 12:00:00','2016-03-16 12:00:00','Ich habe das Buch für die Vorbereitung auf QM2 gekauft. Das Buch ist von einem Nobelpreisträger geschrieben und entstand von einem Kurs, das der Autor mehrere Jahre an Texas Austin Universität gelehrt hat. Der Niveau  das Buch ist mit dem QM2 Schwabl zu vergleichen. Viele Themen sind kurz behandelt, aber das Inhalt präzis genug. Jedenfalls ist das Buch sehr gut für Vertiefung des QM Verständnisses.<br><br>Für  Studenten/innnen, die schon sich mit Qm beschäftigt haben, ist daher  100% Kaufempfehlung.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7286,2474,'Jaime Fernandez','','','','2019-05-09 12:00:00','2019-05-09 12:00:00','El libro fue escrito por uno de los físicos más importantes de la actualidad, de modo que resulta interesante conocer los temas que considera prioritarios. El texto es muy ameno, pero sólo si uno ya conoce el tema (el autor considera que su texto es para alumnos de posgrado). Antes de comprar el libro toma en cuenta que Weinberg no se molestó en poner figuras ni en ocupar la notación de Dirac.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7287,2474,'Toledo','','','','2018-09-03 12:00:00','2018-09-03 12:00:00','I am going to focus on the quality of the book because contents are easier to be familiar with and of course with the author\'s authority on the field.<br>The quality of this book is superb! It is not a cheep crap print on demand book; rather it is a high standard printing quality (like the old Springer books).<br>And for the price, compared to those of Springer or Cambridge University Press or Oxford University Press, this is great deal!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7289,2474,'Maria Laura','','','','2018-10-01 12:00:00','2018-10-01 12:00:00','Molte cose, sia a livello teorico che a livello pratico (nei calcoli) vengono sottintese e a volte non si capisce bene da dove sbuchi una formula. Comunque non male, il prezzo è buono e l\'inglese non è complicato.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7290,2566,'CFortC','','','','2023-04-24 12:00:00','2023-04-24 12:00:00','It was always going to hard to resist a book with \"physical insights\" in the title. I have only gotten a few chapters in, but already this has shown itself a unique treatment. Finally, an unapologetic, methodical explanation of advanced mathematical concepts and notations needed for advanced physics. The frequent example breakouts include both math-oriented elaborations of the material just presented as well as applications from physics. Good graphs and drawings, as you would expect. Overall, a refined, high quality production.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7291,2566,'BKLVR229','','','','2022-10-24 12:00:00','2022-10-24 12:00:00','I was an undergrad guinea pig for the writing of this book, and while it wasn\'t in its complete form at the time it was still some of the best exposition I\'ve encountered to this day. It\'s even better in its completed form. Congrats!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7292,2566,'NIC G.','','','','2022-06-16 12:00:00','2022-06-16 12:00:00','I just received this newly published book. The author has done an excellent job.<br><br>The topics usually encountered in a book dealing with mathematical methods for the physicist are covered. The presentation of the topics is more \"lively\" than the classical books such as Arfken, Riley or even Boas. I really appreciated the fact that the author presents the mathematical notions from the point of view of physics. This approach is quite similar to the excellent book by Snieder (a guided tour of mathematical methods for the physicial sciences).<br><br>Even if the author wants to create the link between mathematics and physics, the mathematical notions are not for all that neglected and not considered as \"simple\" tools (for example, linear algebra concepts are clearly defined  in a rigorous manner) . This approach is quite similar to the other excellent book on the same subject by Altland (mathematics for physicists) although the latter is a bit more abstract and could thus be read as complementary reading.<br><br>I highly recommend this book. It will find its place without problem in the current literature (despite the fact of the great number of works already published on this subject.<br><br>The printing quality of the books of cambrdige university press is, as always, irreproachable.<br><br>Sincerely,',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7293,2470,'Ashutosh Pradhan','','','','2021-03-23 12:00:00','2021-03-23 12:00:00','There are almost no supplementary problems. Its good for Bsc level and that only for syllabus and not entrance. Buy if u need notes and stuff.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7294,2470,'Aishwarya','','','','2022-02-04 12:00:00','2022-02-04 12:00:00','Helpful',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7295,2470,'SEMIMA NASRIN','','','','2020-11-05 12:00:00','2020-11-05 12:00:00','Top book for B.Sc, all topics are here in this book...u can bring it for every topics only this one book no need for another book..',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7297,2470,'Sameer Naik','','','','2020-06-07 12:00:00','2020-06-07 12:00:00','Best book. Very simple English is used in this book. Concepts are described very nicely. Thank you to S.Chand and the auther of this book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7299,2470,'Kavya','','','','2019-12-26 12:00:00','2019-12-26 12:00:00','the book is awesome with  nice explanations to meet my bachelors degree  reqmnts',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7300,2470,'Susan Das','','','','2020-08-10 12:00:00','2020-08-10 12:00:00','Good book but packing was not satisfied at all',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7302,2470,'diva','','','','2020-05-12 12:00:00','2020-05-12 12:00:00','Very helpful',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7303,2470,'jeebanjyoti muduli','','','','2020-01-02 12:00:00','2020-01-02 12:00:00','Its a very good book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7304,2470,'amutha','','','','2018-12-10 12:00:00','2018-12-10 12:00:00','So  cool.  Super packing :)<br>Good page quality : )',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7305,2470,'Hemant','','','','2019-08-23 12:00:00','2019-08-23 12:00:00','little explaination over each topic',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7306,2470,'DHANANJAYA SAHOO','','','','2019-12-04 12:00:00','2019-12-04 12:00:00','Nice product',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7307,2470,'Amit','','','','2018-07-29 12:00:00','2018-07-29 12:00:00','Good book for basics and scoring marks in university exams',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7308,2470,'Newt Ranjith M','','','','2019-11-03 12:00:00','2019-11-03 12:00:00','Good',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7309,2470,'GAMESWAR  SONOWAL','','','','2019-09-26 12:00:00','2019-09-26 12:00:00','Good',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7310,2470,'Imsongti','','','','2018-06-23 12:00:00','2018-06-23 12:00:00','Great quality. Very helpful for higher studies!! Loved it..',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7311,2470,'Narayanan K R','','','','2019-06-22 12:00:00','2019-06-22 12:00:00','As expected',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7312,2470,'Nitesh Chourasia ','','','','2018-12-02 12:00:00','2018-12-02 12:00:00','Very good book for better understanding',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7313,2470,'Moorthi','','','','2019-07-31 12:00:00','2019-07-31 12:00:00','Good',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7314,2470,'Uthaya','','','','2018-05-30 12:00:00','2018-05-30 12:00:00','Nice book very useful to as.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7316,2470,'Affan','','','','2018-09-16 12:00:00','2018-09-16 12:00:00','Useful',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7318,2470,'Harish sharma','','','','2017-08-28 12:00:00','2017-08-28 12:00:00','It was nice',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7320,2470,'Placeholder','','','','2017-03-03 12:00:00','2017-03-03 12:00:00','I\'m satisfied',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7321,2470,'Vijay kumar sonar','','','','2021-09-10 12:00:00','2021-09-10 12:00:00','Worthy to buy!!! But it miss the chapter like optics , electromagnestism,and oscillation which is big no when u have that much of high price,if ur buying in 1st year of bsc physic i suugest to look for other,topic are more from the 3rd year mainly',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7323,2470,'Hemanth','','','','2020-09-04 12:00:00','2020-09-04 12:00:00','Boozing your knowledge through this book,good to read, I got this book far away from my destination and little bit it takes time to reach me.no issues regarding the book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7324,2470,'Tanusree Bhattacharya ','','','','2019-05-23 12:00:00','2019-05-23 12:00:00','Packing was not so good. The pages were folded. But the book is really helpful.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7325,2470,'Sahadev Mishra','','','','2020-09-12 12:00:00','2020-09-12 12:00:00','Good book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7328,2470,'Sundhari.k.','','','','2019-09-11 12:00:00','2019-09-11 12:00:00','Good',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7329,2470,'Lovin','','','','2018-11-19 12:00:00','2018-11-19 12:00:00','It\'s an exam oriented book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7330,2470,'ANKUR KUMAR','','','','2018-10-21 12:00:00','2018-10-21 12:00:00','Nothing much',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7331,2516,'Jackson Wallace','','','','2021-09-18 12:00:00','2021-09-18 12:00:00','I purchased this textbook to use in a graduate-level introductory course on quantum mechanics and have so far found it to be a great book for taking a more in-depth \"introduction\" to the subject beyond the graduate level. I think that starting with the Dirac formulation of quantum mechanics as exemplified by spin is a better way to introduce the subject than beginning with wavefunctions and Sakurai/Napolitano do a great job of explaining the concepts for students of all levels.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7332,2516,'USA Martial Artist','','','','2021-11-06 12:00:00','2021-11-06 12:00:00','AN EXCELLENT ADVANCED LEVEL COURSE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS.  REQUIRES WORK TO FOLLOW THE TEXT BUT WELL WORTH THE EFFORT.  A GOOD REVIEW - ADVANCED LEVEL FOR 1ST GRADUATE SCHOOL LEVEL Q.M. COURSE.  WORKS WELL WITH DIRAC\'S TEXTBOOK.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7335,2516,'ZombiePhysicist','','','','2021-01-02 12:00:00','2021-01-02 12:00:00','This book is a classic and the updates are nice!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7336,2516,'Art Goldhammer','','','','2023-03-03 12:00:00','2023-03-03 12:00:00','This is a great QM textbook, but DO NOT BUY THE KINDLE VERSION. The equations are illegible.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7337,2516,'prelon138','','','','2022-07-27 12:00:00','2022-07-27 12:00:00','really hard to read due to high level of math to be essential',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7338,2516,'Francisco Coutinho','','','','2022-01-17 12:00:00','2022-01-17 12:00:00','It is an advanced book that can be used even in introductory courses . Very good really',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7339,2516,'Julio','','','','2023-01-13 12:00:00','2023-01-13 12:00:00','El libro de Sakurai no necesita presentación para cualquiera que haya estudiado mecánica cuántica. Es un clásico. Obligado para cualquier curso de cuántica a nivel posgrado o de licenciatura a nivel avanzado.  Esta tercera edición me parece muy buena y actualizada.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7340,2516,'Fangjia Zhu','','','','2022-08-10 12:00:00','2022-08-10 12:00:00','Paper has good quality! Same as content.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7341,2516,'Carlos Sánchez','','','','2022-06-23 12:00:00','2022-06-23 12:00:00','Pese a ser un libro avanzado, con un buen seguimiento es un excelente apoyo incluso para los primeros cursos formativos en cuántica.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7342,2516,'Francesc Beltran','','','','2021-10-05 12:00:00','2021-10-05 12:00:00','De un nivel sencillo y fácil de entender para nivel universitario.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7343,2516,'un lettore del 1947','','','','2021-03-03 12:00:00','2021-03-03 12:00:00','The Third Edition of Modern Quantum Mechanics is a beautiful improvement of an excellent book. New topics have been added and/or clarified.<br>The problems at the end of each chapter are excellent and, in my opinion, crucial for understanding Quantum Mechanics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7344,2516,'Tom Ozmak','','','','2021-05-11 12:00:00','2021-05-11 12:00:00','Great book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7345,2516,'Michele','','','','2021-05-03 12:00:00','2021-05-03 12:00:00','Versione innovativa che contiene anche accenni di teoria dei campi',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7346,2516,'into_mg','','','','2021-04-19 12:00:00','2021-04-19 12:00:00','This is a brilliant book that was in need of a good new edition -- I am very satisfied with its content and style.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7347,2516,'futoshi','','','','2020-10-29 12:00:00','2020-10-29 12:00:00','O livro está escrito de uma forma clara e o formalismo matemático está adequado. Não é um livro para iniciantes, ele está voltado para alunos de ciências exatas nos últimos de graduação ou para estudantes de pós.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7348,2516,'Amateur éclairé','','','','2021-05-13 12:00:00','2021-05-13 12:00:00','Remarquable nouvelle édition d\'un livre de maître!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7349,2516,'Ezio A. Menichetti','','','','2020-10-18 12:00:00','2020-10-18 12:00:00','Ottimo testo, servizio perfetto',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7350,2516,'Frank ','','','','2022-03-13 12:00:00','2022-03-13 12:00:00','Sakurai is a great book to lean a graduate-level quantum mechanics. As everyone knows, the book was not entirely written by Sakurai (only the first three chapters were completed), but completed by his friend and colleague Prof Tuan after Sakurai\'s untimely death. The first edition and revised version are very good. It contains absolutely enough modern materials for a typical quantum mechanics class such as the quantum measurement, quantum correlations, Bell inequalities etc. In brief, the third edition (a strange new co-author is added) is totally unneeded and has not made the book better!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7351,2516,'KANG TU CHONG','','','','2020-11-17 12:00:00','2020-11-17 12:00:00','Eqaution font is small, then need to update...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7352,2534,'L. C.','','','','2023-08-01 12:00:00','2023-08-01 12:00:00','Books arrived quickly in the advertised condition.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7354,2534,'Mark Saroufim','','','','2020-06-15 12:00:00','2020-06-15 12:00:00','In the same way that Machine Learning helps you frame problems in the real world as data problems where you need to figure out what your label is given your input, this book was transformational to how I see the world around me.<br><br>At a high level you can describe physical phenomena around you using differential equations, many books do this already by showing you worked out examples or will show you techniques for how to solve differential equations without talking about the equations themselves too much. This book is different in that it helps you refine your intuition to figure out which differential equations would describe some physical process around you, how to visualize and gain intuition around how those differential equations work and finally help you categorize the complexity of different kinds of differential equations and how to go about solving them in a tractable way.<br><br>Now I see differential equations around me all the time, it\'s kinda weird but I like it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7355,2534,'Ray','','','','2019-12-02 12:00:00','2019-12-02 12:00:00','An absolute masterpiece. All the knowledge one would really need to get started is Calculus. Well, to fully appreciate this book and learn from it, having some experience in ordinary differential equations and some rudimentary analysis is a huge plus. I say this because this book trades depth for accessibility, that is, in order for it to be widely comprehensive, it tends to only scratch the surface on most topics. However, with some basic experience in the previously mentioned subjects, one could understand the material at a deeper level.<br><br>The exercises are wonderful, and I encourage anyone to learn XPP to visualize many of the systems encountered. XPP a piece of software written by G. Bard Ermentrout in which you can plot bifurcation diagrams, solutions to systems, phase diagrams, etc (although ancient, there is a plethora of information and tutorial webpages on his site). You can also use Matlab (with Mathcont), but XPP is more straightforward (a bit janky) and FREE.<br><br>Whether you identify as  pure, applied, both or none, I highly recommend any curious academic to go through this book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7356,2534,'Susi','','','','2022-04-02 12:00:00','2022-04-02 12:00:00','Muy buen libro, bien pedagógico<br>Está perfecto para iniciar en el mundo de la física y matemática no lineal.<br>Soy licenciada en física y tengo que recurrir varias veces a este libro para estudiar. 100% recomendado',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7357,2534,'Arthur R. Silen','','','','2021-07-15 12:00:00','2021-07-15 12:00:00','I study  Complexity  Science, and I have a collection of books authored by Professor Strogatz. This is a standard college textbook that I\'ll be using to further advance my knowledge of chaos, nonlinear mathematics. and complex systems.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7358,2534,'Bailey Snee','','','','2020-07-10 12:00:00','2020-07-10 12:00:00','This book is great. In my nonlinear dynamics class, we didn’t quite make it through all of the book’s material, but I liked the content and the book enough to finish out the last 100 pages over my break. It’s very readable, more than most text books. But there are still the usual problems for practice as well.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7359,2534,'Ezekiel Villarreal','','','','2018-07-07 12:00:00','2018-07-07 12:00:00','This book is expertly written! The examples are clear and concise. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the field (or students who have no choice but to buy the book)! If you are picking this up for \"fun\" (of your own volition), I would highly recommend following along with his recorded lectures on YouTube. They are recorded and posted by the mechanical engineering department at Cornell University. He follows along pretty well with the book in these lectures',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7360,2534,'SY','','','','2014-09-02 12:00:00','2014-09-02 12:00:00','I am using this book as a \"practice-first\" guide to mathematics for the guy in his thirties, who struggles to understand why his high education was not done right 15 years ago, and do it so by himself this time.<br>Accompanied by the lectures on the subject (search the title on youtube), this is likely the best book on math out there for motivated unexperienced reader.<br>It will throw you to many practical fields of mathematics, and, having enough time, one can continue wandering and hunting for different subjects while eating this dish chapter by chapter (or lecture by lecture). For me, who has the luxury of not following any education plan, this is a delicious experience.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7361,2534,'Christopher Marx','','','','2015-09-28 12:00:00','2015-09-28 12:00:00','An outstanding book.  I\'m an empirical biologist with just a bit of (long distant) math background.  This has been excellent source for me to supplement a systems biology course I am developing.  I cannot say enough about how much I appreciate the appeal to intuition and specific examples and not just a series of one equation derivation after another.  Well worth it!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7362,2534,'LA in Dallas','','','','2023-06-05 12:00:00','2023-06-05 12:00:00','My review of the first edition of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos follows. Everything I say there applies to the second edition as well. Aside from minor corrections, the second edition differs from the first mainly in the addition of new exercises. Strogatz writes in the Preface<br><br>In the twenty years since this book first appeared, the ideas and techniques of nonlinear dynamics and chaos have found application in such exciting new fields as systems biology, evolutionary game theory, and sociophysics. To give you a taste of these recent developments, I’ve added about twenty substantial new exercises that I hope will entice you to learn more.<br><br>Review of the First edition<br><br>Nonlinear Dynamics is one of the most difficult areas of Applied Mathematics, but you would hardly guess that from reading Steven H. Strogatz. You can read Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering like a (very expensive -- but your university library surely has a copy) novel: start at the beginning, and read one page after another until you get to the end. It starts out simple and builds -- read in order, it all makes sense -- especially if you do the exercises. (Now, be clear: this is a math book. If math is not your thing, you\'re not likely to enjoy it.) Few mathematics books, even those about far more tractable subjects, are this readable.<br><br>What is \"nonlinear dynamics\"? \"Dynamics\" means, roughly, things that change with time. For instance, a car driving from your home to the university library is a dynamic system, and so is a field full of crops that are planted and grow, and so is a disease spreading through a population. This is obviously a big and important subject, and mathematicians have spent much effort on it over the years. They have had most success with linear dynamic systems.<br><br>I\'m not going to give a technical definition of \"linear\" -- if you\'re a mathematician you already know -- but in practice it means you can solve a complicated linear problem by breaking it down into simple subproblems whose solutions are known, then combining those simple solutions to produce the solution of the complicated thing. It is the \"combining\" that linearity makes simple. Linear dynamics is boring (1) because it is mostly a solved problem, and (2) because certain really cool things can never happen in a linear system. For instance, you can have an explosion in a linear system, but there is no way for the explosion to end. If you want to describe a world in which explosions happen, and then stop, and then happen again, you need nonlinearity.<br><br>Almost nothing in The Real World™ is truly linear. However, many, many things in The Real World™ are approximately linear. (This is, more or less, what calculus is all about.) Thus linear dynamics allows us to describe all sort of things just up to the point where they get Really Cool And Difficult. Strogatz is here to tell you about the \"Really Cool\" stuff.<br><br>One thing I like about Strogatz\'s style is that he works hard to make things clear. There are lots of pictures. Also, he is free of the Pointless Purity fetish that afflicts so many mathematicians. He says, in so many words<br><br>Throughout this chapter we have used graphical and analytical methods to analyze first-order systems. Every budding dynamicist should master a third tool: numerical methods.<br><br>That is, you are allowed, indeed encouraged, to use a computer! You can never (well seldom) rigorously prove anything with numerical methods, and since proofs are what mathematics is all about, some mathematicians scorn numerical methods. Now, Strogatz is a mathematician. He knows what rigor is and employs it when it\'s the best way to an answer. But proofs in nonlinear dynamics are difficult, numerical methods are comparatively easy, and he uses both.<br><br>This is the best introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics in existence. If you have any interest in the subject, you should read it. Even if you think you have no interest in the subject, it\'s worth a look -- you might discover a new love.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7363,2534,'Turtleman','','','','2015-01-21 12:00:00','2015-01-21 12:00:00','I agree with what another reviewer said:<br>\"if all math books are written in this clarity, the number of students in physics/engineering would rise considerably\".<br><br>This is the one of the clearest textbooks I ever seen in my college life.<br>Clear words, helpful figures, many examples, ...<br>This book is perfect for self-study.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7364,2534,'Peter Harpending','','','','2017-03-26 12:00:00','2017-03-26 12:00:00','The book is an absolute joy to read. My one complaint is that the book is a little bit too chatty. However, the clarity and beauty make up for the chattiness.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7365,2534,'Dave W','','','','2015-02-05 12:00:00','2015-02-05 12:00:00','Good text book for nonlinear dynamics.  Probably the most quoted text on the subject.  You tube videos of his intro course at Cornell follow book and are very worthwhile.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7366,2534,'Tony Galbier','','','','2016-03-28 12:00:00','2016-03-28 12:00:00','One of the best out there.  Not the greatest in terms of perturbation theory but an excellent book if you want to learn nonlinear systems.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7367,2534,'awsome me','','','','2017-02-12 12:00:00','2017-02-12 12:00:00','Extremely well written and understandable. Perhaps the most accessible math book I\'ve ever seen.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7368,2534,'Robert L. Klungle','','','','2017-02-02 12:00:00','2017-02-02 12:00:00','Very well written and covers subject well. Received in stated time.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7369,2534,'Noel Zinn','','','','2017-01-13 12:00:00','2017-01-13 12:00:00','Easy introduction.  Lucid.  Informal.  Applied rather than theoretical.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7370,2534,'Christy C.','','','','2014-09-30 12:00:00','2014-09-30 12:00:00','One of my favorite books! Great book to reference even in grad school.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7371,2534,'ac1368','','','','2017-03-30 12:00:00','2017-03-30 12:00:00','great conditions',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7372,2534,'Julia','','','','2016-02-19 12:00:00','2016-02-19 12:00:00','Very readable, lively, and easy to understand',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7373,2534,'Mario José Suazo','','','','2016-09-05 12:00:00','2016-09-05 12:00:00','Excelente libro para principiantes.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7374,2534,'Alexander Gutiérrez','','','','2015-10-30 12:00:00','2015-10-30 12:00:00','Good',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7375,2534,'queenofthesky','','','','2015-07-10 12:00:00','2015-07-10 12:00:00','👍🏻',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7376,2534,'Hoseong Asher Lee','','','','2015-02-27 12:00:00','2015-02-27 12:00:00','great',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7377,2534,'luciditycheck','','','','2015-09-17 12:00:00','2015-09-17 12:00:00','Full disclosure: currently working on research under one of the author\'s PhD advisees, now a professor himself. (The research is tangentially related to the topics of this book and I used it to get some background in the matter.)<br><br>Excellent book, very clearly written. As a rising third-year physics major I found it very digestible but still challenging (only used the first 8 chapters so far). I had to read it fairly quick as it was background for research, but looking forward to doing another more careful read and continuing on into the sections on chaos and fractals. It\'s a small thing, but I particularly liked the chart in the first chapter where he groups various problems/topics in physics and other sciences by number of variables and linearity vs. nonlinearity, then qualitatively explains the chart and the relative \"solved-ness\" of each area. It\'s nothing mind-blowing, but it\'s just a very tidy chart that would have been nice to see earlier in my physics/math career.<br><br>One of the reviews on the back says something about the book being well written to the point of being likely to convince people to change their major or really begin to appreciate the beauty of math. As a student I can confirm this and am considering how to work applied math and nonlinear dynamics into future graduate studies.<br><br>This isn\'t the best book for people without a strong calculus background or those who don\'t want to read their share of equations and graphs, but if you are a non-mathy person and happen to come across it, the first chapter or two, plus the more qualitative pieces scattered throughout, may still be enlightening.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7378,2534,'Just Kenneth. ','','','','2019-02-22 12:00:00','2019-02-22 12:00:00','Throughly thoroughly chaotic. That sums up the chaotic theory. This was the best book ever. For an introduction to the chaos theory, this book explains in detail the chaos theory, and the impact of the chaos theory. In fact, after I finished it, my mind was in chaos. The author was brilliant in explaining the chaos theory, and how it worked, and he gave a neo fundamentalist explanation of the chaos theory. At the end of it my mind was enlarged, amazed, and in total wonderment how he could explain it so clearly. This was a must read for anyone. I would say, this was the best book ever, for after that I understood, the chaos theory, and how it worked. Recommended reading for anyone interested in the chaos theory.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7379,2534,'Jose Ortiz','','','','2020-04-18 12:00:00','2020-04-18 12:00:00','Strogatz is a master communicator. He presents ideas in a friendly and conversational tone, leaving out unnecessary rigor and describing lucidly deeper ideas. This book is a masterpiece and a genuine pleasure to read.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7380,2534,'neuronerd','','','','2017-06-26 12:00:00','2017-06-26 12:00:00','A truly brilliant introduction to this material.  The clarity of the writing and examples are unparalleled.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7381,2534,'P. Nelson','','','','2014-10-05 12:00:00','2014-10-05 12:00:00','Here is the subject elegantly pared down to just what a student absolutely needs to know, with Strogatz\'s trademark elegance and wit. The book is a springboard to many field of science, showing how insights in one field illuminate another.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7382,2534,'Cameron Goode','','','','2023-04-02 12:00:00','2023-04-02 12:00:00','The content is good and has improvements over the previous version my only nitpick is the printing quality being much worse in this edition. The paper is quite thin and the printing is a bit blotchy but the plots and everything are still clear. That said the improvements and additions aren\'t super huge. While appreicate them they aren\'t like mind blowing.<br><br>Still I appreciate the high quality of the text and for an undergrad or even a grad student that may not have been exposed to more advanced aspects of ODEs and general non-linearity this remains the best text I know of. I owe it to introducing me to two-timing a technique I still take advantage of to this day.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7383,2534,'J.','','','','2014-11-21 12:00:00','2014-11-21 12:00:00','This textbook is great for helping to teach the concepts of dynamics, but I would not recommend using it to teach yourself. Dr. Strogatz is a fantastic communicator of mathematics. In my opinion you can only go so far into explaining dynamics through the written word, and this book (on occasion) has left me with asking more questions rather than answering them.<br><br>I do enjoy the addition of examples for the second edition, however there is not much else I could see in terms of making the book stand out as a better purchase than the original. For instance, I am often annoyed by some of the hand waving calculations that are used in the examples (certainly present in both editions). I realize that fully explained examples would leave the book about twice as thick, but it is that caliber of textbook which I find essential for effectively communicating this kind of math.<br><br>Overall, a good book to have, but I still don\'t think of it as the best (still haven\'t found one for this topic).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7384,2534,'Joseph','','','','2021-03-06 12:00:00','2021-03-06 12:00:00','This book presents nonlinear dynamics in a manner that should be accessible to anyone that has been acquainted with ODEs; virtually anyone will be able to take something helpful away. For the more mathematically inclined, this book will probably be a bit boring and slow-paced; texts that demand more mathematical maturity might be more enlightening.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7385,2534,'Angel Gomez','','','','2017-01-19 12:00:00','2017-01-19 12:00:00','It was very helpful for understanding what the professor was saying and I learned straight from the book. Some sections are short and hard to understand',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7386,2534,'HT Aaron','','','','2017-02-12 12:00:00','2017-02-12 12:00:00','Better than anticipated; purchased for research expecting endless equations, but found useful explanation of various applications.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7387,2534,'Progress Asoluka','','','','2017-03-25 12:00:00','2017-03-25 12:00:00','Thank you for the book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7388,2534,'Heemoii','','','','2016-09-07 12:00:00','2016-09-07 12:00:00','works nicely alongside his online lectures on youtube',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7389,2534,'Ohio Dad','','','','2016-02-09 12:00:00','2016-02-09 12:00:00','book was used and in perfect shape. Son needed for college class.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7390,2534,'onglee','','','','2014-10-25 12:00:00','2014-10-25 12:00:00','Good book. Highly recommend it to others when seeking a literary review or just information on Chaos.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7391,2534,'Brijendra kumar','','','','2023-02-19 12:00:00','2023-02-19 12:00:00','This is really very good book and written in a proper format. Those who really interested in non linear dynamic theory should read this book<br>Thank you 🙏',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7392,2534,'Gollum','','','','2021-11-08 12:00:00','2021-11-08 12:00:00','I purchased this at the same time that i purchased Jordan &amp; Smith\'s Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations. In comparison, I found that whilst they don\'t cover exactly the same material, where they do overlap, Strogatz\'s book was better structured, had clearer explanations and fewer errors. There is also a series of Youtube videos of lectures given by Strogatz which covers some of the material in this book. if you have the option or you can only afford one, my recommendation would be to go with Strogatz\'s book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7393,2534,'Zachary','','','','2014-09-29 12:00:00','2014-09-29 12:00:00','Received item with some damage to bottom right corner (causing about half the pages to have dog-eared corners). Otherwise the product is as expected. Quick delivery.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7395,2534,'Anónimo','','','','2019-03-18 12:00:00','2019-03-18 12:00:00','Es muy didáctico en la exposición y con ejemplos prácticos interesante.<br>Gran colección de ejercicios en su mayor parte sencillos.<br>No profundiza en los aspectos matemáticos y puede pecar de poco riguroso.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7396,2534,'J.J.','','','','2016-04-10 12:00:00','2016-04-10 12:00:00','Good introduction on nonlinear dynamics and the generation of chaos through parameter variation. Trajectory density propagation (Frobenius-Person operator) is missing. There\'s also a set of video lectures from the author\'s course at Cornell on Youtube.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7397,2540,'cmoore','','','','2023-06-12 12:00:00','2023-06-12 12:00:00','Book is in good shape as expected; no issues.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7398,2540,'Omar Guzman','','','','2019-08-24 12:00:00','2019-08-24 12:00:00','Kit includes the online assignments, no answers or tutoring help. Don\'t recommend for self studying. eBook software is terrible.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7399,2540,'Jacqueline Lu','','','','2015-08-29 12:00:00','2015-08-29 12:00:00','Was a bit suspicious because of the cost for brand new book and 3-day delivery, but it turns out great! The book is in condition as stated and it w packed so very well that it took me a while to unpack it. Definitely recommend.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7400,2540,'Taylor','','','','2013-10-13 12:00:00','2013-10-13 12:00:00','Basically, the book is a good resource and it\'s a physic\'s student\'s encyclopedia for everything.  At UPJ, it goes for Physics 1 and Physics 2.  I suggest re-renting for just buying it, especially if you are a science/engineering major.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7401,2540,'LightsOut','','','','2015-06-04 12:00:00','2015-06-04 12:00:00','Absolutely fantastic book! I\'m very surprised at some other the other negative reviews. This book is the clearest and most organized physics book as far as I\'m concerned. Very handy book to keep for future classes too!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7402,2540,'Sophia Dao','','','','2018-10-28 12:00:00','2018-10-28 12:00:00','I purchased a used one and it\'s looked like brand new as described.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7405,2540,'Jorge','','','','2014-09-26 12:00:00','2014-09-26 12:00:00','The book was in perfect condition. It met my expectations and the best part is that it included the access code for Mastering Physics. I am really satisfied.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7406,2540,'Vinicus','','','','2014-04-05 12:00:00','2014-04-05 12:00:00','This book covers all of Physics for an undergraduate course and deals with simplified math. Good as a complement for high school physics course. Has modern physics!!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7407,2540,'Jacob Justus','','','','2011-02-08 12:00:00','2011-02-08 12:00:00','this was an excellent but. I was able to get the textbook and Mastering Physics internet access code for juts under $150.00. this is a savings of more than a hundred dollars as compared to the MSRP.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7408,2540,'Gage Edgar','','','','2013-09-22 12:00:00','2013-09-22 12:00:00','This is quite a comprehensive textbook! This book will cover 4 semesters at my college for the same price as my 1 semester textbooks.  Two thumbs up!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7409,2540,'Kris','','','','2018-01-12 12:00:00','2018-01-12 12:00:00','It has all of the physics material needed!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7410,2540,'MarbleTech','','','','2013-01-02 12:00:00','2013-01-02 12:00:00','This book provides all the information needed. There are only a few times where it is unclear, but the amount of information makes this a minor problem.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7411,2540,'Brian F.','','','','2015-11-10 12:00:00','2015-11-10 12:00:00','Probably the best resource for introductory undergraduate physics. I really suggest this for GRE preparation reference as well.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7412,2540,'Robbie','','','','2015-01-22 12:00:00','2015-01-22 12:00:00','Arrived quickly and was as expected. Purchased for my son for school. He said it is good what he needed.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7413,2540,'Thomas Sjoberg','','','','2013-08-12 12:00:00','2013-08-12 12:00:00','Good illustrative examples and a comprehensive list of topics that are explained. A good way to be introduced to all parts of physics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7415,2540,'R. Mesquita','','','','2009-09-15 12:00:00','2009-09-15 12:00:00','The title says it all. It\'s one of the best and modern textbooks for introductory physics courses. The \"Physics for Scientists &amp; Engineers, with modern physics\" is definitely a must-have! I strongly recommend it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7416,2540,'William P. Crichton','','','','2013-10-22 12:00:00','2013-10-22 12:00:00','All truth is God\'s truth; Physics is truth; to know physics is to be closer to God and speak ex cathedra.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7417,2540,'leela','','','','2017-11-27 12:00:00','2017-11-27 12:00:00','i love this',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7418,2540,'Zane','','','','2017-01-20 12:00:00','2017-01-20 12:00:00','Pretty good Physics book, especially for the price',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7419,2540,'Andreia Rhoten','','','','2016-06-25 12:00:00','2016-06-25 12:00:00','Detailed explanation of topics related very well to to class.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7420,2540,'Ramon Castillo','','','','2015-03-07 12:00:00','2015-03-07 12:00:00','I chose the wrong volume, but i did receive the book I bought',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7421,2540,'D. G. Frank','','','','2016-12-06 12:00:00','2016-12-06 12:00:00','Mmmmm, yummy. Well done, and exhaustive.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7423,2540,'Jing','','','','2016-02-08 12:00:00','2016-02-08 12:00:00','very happy<br>thank you',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7424,2540,'J.Dee','','','','2014-09-19 12:00:00','2014-09-19 12:00:00','Great service, arrived quickly, packed beautifully. Thank you!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7425,2540,'Quennel','','','','2016-02-20 12:00:00','2016-02-20 12:00:00','Good text book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7426,2540,'C H','','','','2016-02-08 12:00:00','2016-02-08 12:00:00','as expected',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7427,2540,'Thong Thai','','','','2014-09-29 12:00:00','2014-09-29 12:00:00','Great product. Fast delivery. Highly recommended!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7428,2540,'Edi','','','','2015-09-18 12:00:00','2015-09-18 12:00:00','Very good',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7429,2540,'Steven Valenzuela','','','','2015-09-30 12:00:00','2015-09-30 12:00:00','Sweet',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7430,2540,'diego','','','','2015-02-16 12:00:00','2015-02-16 12:00:00','Perfect condition',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7431,2540,'Minwoo Kong','','','','2013-08-18 12:00:00','2013-08-18 12:00:00','I am currently student at San Jose State University majoring in Electrical Engineering.<br><br>When I was in community college, my requirement was to take Physics 4C, 4B and 4C [General Physics for Scientists &amp;<br><br>Engineers] which I basically finished the book.<br><br>I see some people are saying this book is really horrible but I don\'t think so.<br><br>I loved how they oriented the subject and each chapters are clear for me to understand.<br><br>Remember, this is for general physics for who is willing to study in science which is covering most of modern physics that we will experience in real life.<br><br>My courses were pretty fast I believe, because we went through 16 chapters in first semester [Mostly basic physics with newton\'s law] and 16 chapters in second semester [Circuits, and chemistry based] and finally 12 chapters which I believe 44 chapters total.<br><br>I am not seriously care about grade, I am more likely care about how much I learn from this book/subject.<br><br>Maybe for grade wise, problems are difficult specially 3 star problems at the end of each chapter.<br><br>However, it covers every physics knowledge that student must to know in order to be successful in science major.<br><br>I don\'t regret that I could not get A on this classes but I loved how this book directs you to more interest of physics that\'s why I choose to be a engineer from economist.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7432,2540,'MM','','','','2019-05-16 12:00:00','2019-05-16 12:00:00','ISBN-10: 0131992260 and ISBN-13: 978-0131992269 is for the Access Code ONLY and allows the student to do homework and grants access to the online eText version of the textbook.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7433,2540,'Ewout Boks','','','','2011-09-22 12:00:00','2011-09-22 12:00:00','I have owned a copy of this book (2nd edition) since 1989. The book helped me through university (MSc Electrical Engineering) and I find it a very well written and useful book. The topics in the book are well defined and carefully explained. Also, the examples are well thought out and do not contain any (at least to my knowledge) errors.<br> Even now (I run a business designing electronics) I use it on occasions, when I need clarification on issues not directly in my expertise (thermodynamics, fluids etc). The purchase is an investment that will pay itself back in an engineering lifetime. Recommended !',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7434,2540,'Victor','','','','2009-12-09 12:00:00','2009-12-09 12:00:00','As a student, I used this book for two semesters. Although the material is pretty tough at times, the book actually helped me learn concepts that I didn\'t fully understand in class, and even touch on things I hadn\'t learned. Compared to most other textbooks I\'ve ever used, this was one of the more well written books. Topics covered are simple enough to learn easily, yet thorough enough to really understand some of the fundamentals of physics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7435,2540,'Milling','','','','2010-07-18 12:00:00','2010-07-18 12:00:00','This is one of the better texts for an introductory Calculus-based physics course.  While the center of any good science course should be laboratory experiments, this text is a good supplement, with clear writing and well explained examples.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7436,2540,'Don Chen','','','','2020-03-10 12:00:00','2020-03-10 12:00:00','Good book.  Arrived on time.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7437,2540,'Brian Page','','','','2014-09-23 12:00:00','2014-09-23 12:00:00','Textbook came brand new in wrapping, along with the Mastering Physics key.  Book seems to be perfect, and have everything I need for my Physics class, but I only rated it 4 stars because of one (minor) issue; and I would give something like 4 1/2 stars, but I can\'t.  The issue I have with it is that the book smells pretty...weird.  I don\'t know how to place it.  A friend of mine said it smells like cat piss, and I\'d say that\'s close, but I\'m not sure.  There doesn\'t seem to be any source of the smell.  The smell is just on the book.  Maybe that\'s normal, but I have no clue.  Either way, it doesn\'t really affect me or the usefulness of the book in any way.  I\'m just glad I was able to get what I needed MUCH cheaper than my college bookstore charges for it, and brand new, no less.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7439,2540,'Luke G.','','','','2017-07-11 12:00:00','2017-07-11 12:00:00','The book came in perfect condition. Giancoli is the premium standard for high school and college physics books. They are well written and contain a variety of problem that make you think about the material in a different way. It is a great suppliment for classroom learning. As an Petroleum Engineering major, this book should have 5 stars. But the main issue I have is the price of the book, which is why I only gave it 4 stars. I do not believe college students should have to pay that astronomical price. The price of this book can equal the price of the class, and that is not good.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7440,2540,'Rob Moore','','','','2012-03-26 12:00:00','2012-03-26 12:00:00','This book delves into 35+ chapters of physics, but I feel that the author does not go into enough detail to cover topics sufficiently. Of course this is an introductory text, but the examples provided could have been used to go into more thorough applications of the topics. Overall, however, the text is clear and includes many diagrams to help the student.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7441,2540,'alisha','','','','2015-02-24 12:00:00','2015-02-24 12:00:00','Book came with tears all on the front cover. Half the binding is just slit...  Hopefully it doesnt tear up before it has to be returned since we rented it.. Overall, the book does have a great way of explaining everything.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7442,2540,'Em K','','','','2016-05-30 12:00:00','2016-05-30 12:00:00','Arrived with a very worn cover, but with very minimal damage to the text and at a very good price. This will definitely last me through all of my physics courses.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7444,2540,'Cat','','','','2013-09-26 12:00:00','2013-09-26 12:00:00','For those of you that had to buy this for school, the MasteringPhysics part is painful. Very \"format\" heavy on the answers.  Fortunately most people have pulled the questions and worked them out if you google.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7445,2540,'Lauren Irwin','','','','2013-09-25 12:00:00','2013-09-25 12:00:00','The book was in really good quality and it is formatted nicely. I feel that it sometimes doesn\'t explain everything ever well though, so hopefully your prof can fill in the gaps!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7446,2540,'Jordan','','','','2015-11-23 12:00:00','2015-11-23 12:00:00','Please do not buy the book, try renting it or buying used. Sell back value sucks, do not waste your money like I did.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7447,2540,'Individual Intersects','','','','2012-06-08 12:00:00','2012-06-08 12:00:00','What can I say, this is the standard. It lasted me three semesters of physics and then I privately resold it for a hundred bucks. Very useful and well written.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7449,2540,'MW','','','','2015-11-15 12:00:00','2015-11-15 12:00:00','It is a physics book. if you like physics you will like the book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7450,2540,'Tony Jacob','','','','2015-02-08 12:00:00','2015-02-08 12:00:00','The book is in fair condition with the binding still in tact.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7451,2540,'Nathan J. Thornley','','','','2014-09-19 12:00:00','2014-09-19 12:00:00','Book was pretty neat up but usable. It\'s fine for the price.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7452,2540,'Richard W Dyer','','','','2015-09-11 12:00:00','2015-09-11 12:00:00','nice condition.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7454,2532,'Nicole B.','','','','2023-07-22 12:00:00','2023-07-22 12:00:00','The description of the book matched exactly to what I received. The book was clean, no writing in the book or on the sides. It came before the time expected and I liked how they shipped via FedEx so I was able to track when it might arrive. It came shipped in a brown paper sleeve type packaging, but surprisingly it was very sturdy even though it wasn\'t big like a box. I would definitely purchase a used book from them again.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7455,2532,'brian','','','','2020-12-19 12:00:00','2020-12-19 12:00:00','I hope your teacher uses this book. It\'s truly EASY to read. It\'s as easy as watching a TED talk or YouTube video. It feels like someone is talking to you in person. I\'ve struggled with physics in some ways, and I haven\'t FULLY completed this textbook yet, but it\'s quite welcoming. Not like my calculus book. Definitely one of the best physics texts out there. Read, study, get an \"A\" :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7456,2532,'Tomas','','','','2021-04-16 12:00:00','2021-04-16 12:00:00','I actually read the entire text. Very readable, equations and problems are easy to understand, and seems to be a great reference that will go on my bookshelf.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7457,2532,'Gregory Younce','','','','2022-01-03 12:00:00','2022-01-03 12:00:00','The book is written well.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7458,2532,'eduardo burgue','','','','2020-08-18 12:00:00','2020-08-18 12:00:00','This is an excellent book to study  Physics. Chapters are well explained with very good informations with details.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7459,2532,'William','','','','2019-08-10 12:00:00','2019-08-10 12:00:00','Only half way through it, but very easy to understand so far. Highly recommended!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7461,2532,'David Holland','','','','2018-09-19 12:00:00','2018-09-19 12:00:00','Was in decent shape when received.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7462,2532,'Yair Gonzalez ','','','','2019-02-18 12:00:00','2019-02-18 12:00:00','It is amazing',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7463,2532,'khaled saad','','','','2018-09-13 12:00:00','2018-09-13 12:00:00','very nice',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7464,2532,'Poisse1','','','','2018-03-08 12:00:00','2018-03-08 12:00:00','ok',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7465,2532,'Diablo the Diabolical','','','','2022-12-06 12:00:00','2022-12-06 12:00:00','I wasn\'t able to use the book as my school told me the wrong book to order, but the orders were pretty easy and very cheap. Recommend picking up through here if your school requires it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7466,2532,'S G','','','','2019-12-14 12:00:00','2019-12-14 12:00:00','Absolutely packed with information and examples. One of the very few textbooks worth their price.<br><br>- Content of the book: 10/10<br>- Publisher: 0/10<br><br>Hope your course does not require WebAssign, because that\'ll be another $100 just to do your homework. Cengage is complete garbage, along with all of the other American university textbook publishers, and rest assured that they will do whatever they can to screw you out of as much money as possible.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7467,2532,'Angel','','','','2023-02-04 12:00:00','2023-02-04 12:00:00','Will buy again, arrived late but in great condition',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7469,2532,'Luis Cavello','','','','2022-04-05 12:00:00','2022-04-05 12:00:00','La primera vez me llego sucio y roto pedí el reemplazo y me llego en muy buen estado. Con respecto al contenido del libro es muy bueno contiene todos los temas de física, ideal para bachillerato.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7470,2532,'Pablo  MARTINEZ','','','','2021-04-28 12:00:00','2021-04-28 12:00:00','Es fácil de leer, entender. Lo recomiendo.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7471,2532,'luis caamano martinez','','','','2020-01-24 12:00:00','2020-01-24 12:00:00','This book is one of the best in its field, very good updated in 10th edition.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7472,2532,'Catherine','','','','2019-11-02 12:00:00','2019-11-02 12:00:00','Conforme à la description, très bon livre',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7473,2532,'Brian Beckman','','','','2020-08-10 12:00:00','2020-08-10 12:00:00','The book covers a lot of material with worked examples. Very nice. The endpapers are inexplicably printed upside-down. The paper is as thin as newspaper. Many pages are stuck together with bits of glue on the edges. Nothing is too difficult to live with, but at this price I would expect top-notch construction, but it has the feel of one of those gray-market foreign products. Should be much better.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7475,2496,'Hugh Calvin','','','','2023-08-10 12:00:00','2023-08-10 12:00:00','The author is very skilled at making advanced concepts clear.  I\'ve studied many of the books he\'s written and been very pleased with each of them.  It would be useful if he would provide problems for the reader to solve (either embedded in the text or at the end of the chapters).  Solving problems is the best way to learn for some of us.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7476,2496,'Leeber Cohen','','','','2021-03-08 12:00:00','2021-03-08 12:00:00','The review by MSE Fanatic is right on target. If you carefully read Chapter 3 on Lie Algebra behind the Lorentz and Poincare groups should become clearer. If you want to have a mathematical insight into spinors and spin this is a great place to start your study.  This will help you approach the rotations,boosts, and translations seen in quantum field theory and other fields of physics.  I would like to make clear exactly what math you need to get the most out of this book.  As an example you will need to a clear understanding of tensor calculus, the Kronecker, Permutation tensors to understand math relating the K generator  (formula 3.145 to 3.147) . The conversion between tensor format and matrices can be very confusing unless you have a foundation in both tensor calculus and linear algebra. (See author side note  number 129). In places the author does a beautiful job demonstrating the switch from vector(tensor) format to matrix format.( Please see sections 3.157-3.158.) He also does a nice job of demonstrating the Taylor series for the first member of the Lorentz group. This would be a good time to refresh your memory on the hyperbolic sinh and cosh fuctions and series.  In other places you have to figure out the math for  yourself. The author frequently leaves it to the reader to calculate out the commutators. As stated in previously noted review it would be very helpful to self learners who are new to this math or have forgotten this math to have more of them written out.  Overall a wonderful book which gives you the algebra to appreciate many aspects of modern physics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7477,2496,'Matt N','','','','2021-10-06 12:00:00','2021-10-06 12:00:00','I admired the premise of this book in terms of using symmetry as a starting point to see how the various pillars of physics like quantum mechanics, classical mechanics and electromagnetism are manifested and the connections between the subjects. In short, it is a masterpiece and actually demonstrates the line of thinking that most of my graduate physics professors only hinted at or suggested might be there (and I don\'t blame them, it\'s a deep and difficult topic that few have ventured into let alone mastered). Jakob walks a very fine line in trying to keep the math as simple as possible but also sufficiently powerful to connect and explain the ideas. The math is deep, there is no avoiding it at this level of exploration, but it\'s also very clearly annotated and described with the same clarity that other textbooks use to describe a simple pendulum. Keep in mind, this is not meant to be a quantum mechanics textbook or a reference for all of electromagnetism. The emphasis is on the origins of those areas, and the author does an amazing job. Bravo!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7478,2496,'MSE fanatic','','','','2020-05-27 12:00:00','2020-05-27 12:00:00','If you are interested in books about the modern theory of quantum physics (e.g. quantum field theories) that are accessible for anyone with a STEM degree, this is the book for you! The premise of the book is that all of derivable physics is governed by the principal of symmetry. Why the physical world exist they way it does (e.g. fundamental constants, the occurrence of triples in theories and results) is not discussed because as of now it has no derivable theory. The author  provides all the mathematics needed in a clean and digestible delivery. All that he assumes is basic familiarity with vector spaces, complex numbers, calculus, linear algebra but provides appendices to refresh the reader. After completing this book you will have a clear understanding for the current theory behind the physical world and how the mathematics of symmetry tells us this. The only critique I have is, it would be nice to see some examples working out the \"mechanics\"  of the math . This book is just a pleasure to have read.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7479,2496,'Gary W. Pearson','','','','2020-04-22 12:00:00','2020-04-22 12:00:00','By George, I think he\'s got it!<br><br>(And, more to the point, perhaps I finally get it as well.)<br><br>What a great way to look at physics. Obviously other approaches have their strengths as well. But, this is a way to get a handle on the BIG PICTURE, the big fat, \"What\'s it all about?\" question.<br><br>It\'s all about symmetry!<br><br>Now, wouldn\'t it be wonderful if I knew about this book BEFORE I read the standard textbooks on quantum mechanics and quantum field theory?<br><br>Ah yes, c\'est la vie!<br><br>Still, Great Job Jakob!<br><br>(p.s. -- make sure you have a compatible device. I know a lot of other Kindle versions don\'t support a crisp font that resizes formulas, something a kin to PDF formats. This Kindle version requires a device that supports advanced fonts.)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7480,2496,'David Plummer','','','','2020-07-19 12:00:00','2020-07-19 12:00:00','As a physics amateur I love to read popular books about the fundamental workings of the universe.  However, I have always been confused by the \"high level\" references to symmetry or \"symmetry breaking\".  What does all that really mean?  This book is finally helping me make sense of it all.  With appendices that help address the mathematical tools necessary, the main text explains the role of symmetry in nature at just the right level to give the reader a good understanding of the concepts without getting lost in the weeds.  This book is a challenging but rewarding read for any enthusiast who has some physics and math background but wants to go deeper.  I highly recommend it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7481,2496,'KimSong Lim','','','','2022-06-27 12:00:00','2022-06-27 12:00:00','Despite the very young age of the author, he is able to explain abstract concepts in a very easy to understand way. Intend to look at his other books as well. Recommend.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7482,2496,'Noah &amp; Lukas\' Mommy','','','','2021-01-27 12:00:00','2021-01-27 12:00:00','20+ years after my PhD I did not expect to finally gain a deeper understanding of the group theory underpinning of the most fundamental concepts in Physics.  The author always keeps the big picture Physics motivation and interpretation clear and explicit.  He does not skimp over the math but shows step by step derivations that other books may refer to homework assignments.  A real page turner!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7483,2496,'Ho Man Fai','','','','2021-10-13 12:00:00','2021-10-13 12:00:00','I like this books very much to start my self learning on symmetry. I also purchased all of non-nonsense series books to prepare for my studying on those advanced and modern physics topics during my retirement.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7484,2496,'Pierre','','','','2021-10-09 12:00:00','2021-10-09 12:00:00','It is the perfect book, in my case, to read in parallel with my courses to have a different approach to physics.<br>Algebra, invariances and Noether\'s theorem are all there.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7485,2496,'PM','','','','2021-04-26 12:00:00','2021-04-26 12:00:00','If you learned physics without group theory like I did this book will present you with a easy to understand version using Lie Groups etc. highly recommended',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7486,2496,'Don Estreich','','','','2020-09-26 12:00:00','2020-09-26 12:00:00','I was really surprised that this book is as readable as it is on the topics it covers.  I have long been interested in the topics covered and this book was a pleasant surprise as a learning tool.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7487,2496,'Mauro W. B. Almeida','','','','2019-10-29 12:00:00','2019-10-29 12:00:00','This book links physical laws to an underlying framework which is usually silenced in handbooks. This makes a demanding reading -- requiring maturity from the reader. This is the kind of book which I appreciate: it leads the reader towards the unifying concepts, in this case group-theoretical ideas.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7488,2496,'Tom','','','','2019-08-01 12:00:00','2019-08-01 12:00:00','This book covers almost all branches of physics in undergraduate studies in a concise way, starting from symmetry principles. This one can also serve as a pipeline to graduate studies in physics such as quantum field theory, etc.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7489,2496,'idrees93','','','','2020-06-18 12:00:00','2020-06-18 12:00:00','Very accessible and fun to read !!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7490,2496,'Nehemiah Leong','','','','2020-06-16 12:00:00','2020-06-16 12:00:00','Great book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7491,2496,'GIESMXT','','','','2021-01-04 12:00:00','2021-01-04 12:00:00','Summary:<br>The presentation of the material is clear, concise, and in a \"step by step\" format - you rarely have to do any work to go from one equation to the next.  If you want to understand how group theory (symmetry) can lead to a description of elementary particles and their fundamental interactions, to symmetry breaking and particle masses, then this book is for you. All considered, it\'s a 5 star book.<br><br>The Good:<br>The physical book has a good, water resistant cover, good binding, with high quality polished paper.<br><br>Prerequisites seem to be two years of college calculus, some college physics, and an introduction to linear algebra (matrices).<br><br>This is not a text book. There are no end of chapter problems or detailed examples. The format is as if the author wrote up his class notes, and then filled in all the details and missing steps. Most of the book reads like one big worked example with all the steps included.<br><br>It\'s an excellent introduction to group theory (for non-mathematicians), particularly SU(2), and spinors.<br><br>The Less Than Good:<br>The introduction to index manipulations in Ch. 2 and the Appendix is too short to be of real use. For example, a better introduction to the difference between row and column vectors and how they transform in a metric space is needed. This diminishes the readability of the book for people who are less well versed.<br><br>Some symbols can be ambiguous, like using the number 1 to represent the identity matrix.<br><br>Constants, like c (the speed of light) and h (Plank\'s constant), are not shown. These are usually shown in undergraduate books.<br><br>The Index is 3x to 4x too small, making searches difficult.<br><br>There are many sentence structure and punctuation imperfections. While this is noticeable, the meaning is almost always clear. I only had to decipher the meaning of two sentences in the book.<br><br>The Bad:<br>The presentation of SU(3) is not even a good summary, so if you need a good introduction to SU(3), look elsewhere.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7492,2496,'Emroz Khan','','','','2021-06-11 12:00:00','2021-06-11 12:00:00','An excellent easy-to-follow book on the formulation of physics based on symmetry considerations. Highly recommended to those who want to see a development of fundamental physical laws from a series of simple arguments.<br><br>The author is also very knowledgeable about various topics (Lie algebra, Standard model etc) from numerous resources and references. Calculations are shown in detail. Hard topics are not watered down. References are given for topics that stray away too much. There are still some minor typos in the second edition (although an Errata can be found online). I am not a big fan of books with large page sizes as they are hard to carry around and to read while lying down. However, the remarks in the column sidenotes are really helpful.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7493,2496,'Gunnar Calvert','','','','2018-02-19 12:00:00','2018-02-19 12:00:00','This book is amazing. It teaches you to think like a physicist (I would imagine, can\'t be sure but I\'ll get there one day!). It may not help you perform the calculations you will inevitably encounter in your problem sets at uni, but it opens the doors to higher physics. I had gone through a course in quantum mechanics that touched on field theory and I was so confused about not only the connection between these theories but I was confused about the fundamentals of each independently. Most importantly, I think, I could not work with Lagrangians. They had never been explained to me properly (thanks, Phys 310) and also special relativity was never covered in my electrodynamics class so all I knew about it was time dilation and length contraction. The book is so valuable because you see how special relativity and lagrangians work and how theories are built with them.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7494,2496,'H. Peter Alesso','','','','2018-05-08 12:00:00','2018-05-08 12:00:00','I enjoyed Jakob Schwichtenberg\'s wonderful text. It formed big picture ideas with down to Earth descriptions while filling in some vital details about quantum field theory.  A clear, concise, well-written introductory level of physics topics connecting the common threads of symmetry through well  organized material.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7495,2496,'Traves W. Wood','','','','2022-04-24 12:00:00','2022-04-24 12:00:00','Initially after surveying this book, all that registered with me was the complex mathematics.  Even the first couple pages, which preview the whole book, seemed beyond my grasp.  But as I pushed on it got easier and easier to comprehend.  It lays out concepts in an exceptionally organized way.  I didn\'t believe is was a Physics primer till after I finished the first chapter.  Now I truly feel that it is a primer.  But it does take some Calculus and Linear algebra to understand the math.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7496,2496,'fjcaro','','','','2021-10-12 12:00:00','2021-10-12 12:00:00','I\'ve got a Master degree in nuclear physics but still i\'ve got a lot of question unsolved about QFT and his applications.<br><br>This book has made me an incredible boost to  improve mi knolewge of the matter and mainly a big perception about the group theory importance in the modern physics development and his deep consequences.<br><br>From first principles this book offers the perspective that there\'s not other way so simple to modelate de reality with so big consequences.<br><br>A must.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7497,2496,'JONeall','','','','2020-07-30 12:00:00','2020-07-30 12:00:00','I have not yet finished the book, but I have got quite enough into it to see that it explains in an accessible manner the real importance of symmetry in physics.<br><br>I actually received a PhD in particle physics in 1967, but at the time there was not yet a course in this subject at my school. Having left physics in 1973, I am now, in my retirement, looking to understand what has been going on since, which is quite a lot. And this books explains it, with enough math to understand, but not so much as to snow you under.<br><br>Since then, I have purchased another of Mr Schwichtenberg\'s books, the one on quantum field theory, which I am reading in parallel. It too is a marvel.<br><br>Thank you, Mr Schwichtenberg! Danke vielmals, Jakob',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7498,2496,'Pieter Hamans','','','','2022-05-20 12:00:00','2022-05-20 12:00:00','Big size, super quality paper, print and binding. Liked the setup better than the no-nonsense books by the same author. Moreover, I learned so much from this book. Typically one of those books you wanted to have read 30 years ago.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7499,2496,'Michal Bires','','','','2022-02-02 12:00:00','2022-02-02 12:00:00','This book is simple. You don\'t need to be expert, just to have common knowledge in Physics to understand, yet the explanation of topics crucial for higher understanding of especially QFT is very clear. Recommend this book for it\'s unique perspective from symmetry point of view. Also basic groups common in QFT are cristaly clear explained.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7500,2496,'Simon B','','','','2019-12-19 12:00:00','2019-12-19 12:00:00','One of the first textbooks where i truly wished it would just go on and on.<br>Definitely helped my understanding, but it is only an introductory book that often scratches on the surface. Either way a good starting point and almost no prior-knowledge required.<br>Afterwards or as alternatives i can recommend (imo)<br>  - Symmetry and the Standard model by Matthew Robinson (sligthly more demanding)<br>  - Quantom theory, groups and representations by Peter Woit (a lot more demanding)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7501,2496,'waetermans fabian','','','','2019-06-01 12:00:00','2019-06-01 12:00:00','This book is unique for people curious to understand how physics can be dérivée from symetry principles. It has been written in a pedagogical goal and it is covering a gap between books for specialists and vulgarisation ones.<br>All students in physics must bought this book but also all curious people having a minimum level in mathematics. In my view there is nothing equivalent in current physics books litterature.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7502,2496,'jamie','','','','2020-08-23 12:00:00','2020-08-23 12:00:00','This is a very well written text that explains a difficult subject concisely and coherently.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7503,2496,'Friendly Legendre Transform','','','','2018-10-28 12:00:00','2018-10-28 12:00:00','This is one of the best books I have bought in years. Not only would buy again but also would donate money to the author to keep it uo with his work. This second edition is a must have for any theoretical physics inclined student.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7504,2496,'salsadrago','','','','2019-06-10 12:00:00','2019-06-10 12:00:00','Ho acquistato questo libro per mio figli oc he studia fisica. Ottimo rapporto qualità prezzo. Valido prodotto',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7505,2496,'MchCtp','','','','2020-06-29 12:00:00','2020-06-29 12:00:00','Great book!!! Everything clearly explained.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7506,2496,'Ajay Singh','','','','2018-07-07 12:00:00','2018-07-07 12:00:00','This is what you need to understand the language of Physics. It\'s awesome!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7507,2496,'Mustapha','','','','2019-06-16 12:00:00','2019-06-16 12:00:00','The book that i dreamed of...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7508,2496,'Kindle Customer','','','','2022-04-22 12:00:00','2022-04-22 12:00:00','You need calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, and group theory to follow the derivations in this book. Vectors and complex numbers would not go amiss. Not surprisingly, you should have a college physics course as well. Lagrangian mechanics wouldn\'t hurt.<br>If you have all this, you will find this approach to physics to be both interesting and beautiful.<br>I would give it five stars, but I am not sufficiently educated to have complete confidence in this approach. The author has other books that are impressive and well-written, so I expect five stars is probably merited. I\'m glad I bought it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7509,2496,'E. Sackinger','','','','2022-01-03 12:00:00','2022-01-03 12:00:00','This book makes learning about modern physics relatively easy. The writing style is engaging and clear. The book is rather short and focuses on the big picture while leaving many questions open. But this is actually a good thing because you first want to get an overview before diving into the details.<br><br>I was somewhat disappointed that even in the second edition many typos (especially in the equations) remain uncorrected.<br><br>Before reading this book, I recommend to first go through the author\'s No-Nonsense books (which are more elementary and detailed) or the similar Theoretical-Minimum books by Susskind.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7510,2496,'James','','','','2019-08-31 12:00:00','2019-08-31 12:00:00','I have not finished the book; so far it meets my expectations.  Some sentences are structured awkwardly, but the messages are decipherable without much trouble.  I like the approach used by the author.  It brings a more modern view of the critical concepts necessary for physics education.<br>Delivery was on time.  Soft packaging allowed the corners of the hard cover to become deformed.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7511,2496,'Ben Hsu','','','','2021-09-22 12:00:00','2021-09-22 12:00:00','I\'m writing this as someone who graduated about 20 years ago with a math background, but who is trying to learn physics as an enthusiast.<br><br>I learned some very cool things, for example, I finally learned what U1, SU2, etc were and why they show up in physics, and why symmetries are so important.<br><br>Given my background, I felt some of the things that got footnotes didn\'t (for example: \"a circle is all points equidistant from a point\") and other things could have used more elaboration in the appendices (for example: tensor product, Casimir operators, and  taking e to the power of a matrix,  it was a good thing I had seen the 3blue1brown video about that, I also didn\'t know that det(e^M)=Tr(M))',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7512,2496,'Michal Grochol','','','','2023-05-18 12:00:00','2023-05-18 12:00:00','Nice, short, and easy to understand book about the symmetry in physics. It can give you a deeper perspective on the role of symmetry in the laws of physics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7513,2496,'Jean V.','','','','2019-10-29 12:00:00','2019-10-29 12:00:00','I studied (did all calculations) the second edition of the book. The book aims at deriving the main equations of fundamental physics from symmetry principles. The book pursues this goal in a logic and clear way (a great number of calculations are done in detail), never drifting away from that goal. Having studied other books on symmetry, this purposefulness is quite unique. The book still has some flaws (which explains the missing star), but they are no reason to steer away from an  insightful reading. I can testify that the author is easy to reach and that he welcomes comments and corrections. This is not always the case; I tried to send a long list of corrections to the author of another book on symmetry in physics: there was no contact information (no affiliation, no email address), and when I finally reached the author I was told my corrections where not welcomed!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7514,2496,'Alexis','','','','2020-08-07 12:00:00','2020-08-07 12:00:00','É um bom livro para estudantes de graduação.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7515,2568,'Paul','','','','2014-10-09 12:00:00','2014-10-09 12:00:00','Great adjunct to the textbook.  Step by step explanations are very clear and easy to follow.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7517,2558,'Chukuka O.','','','','2015-01-14 12:00:00','2015-01-14 12:00:00','The first time I took Modern Physics I failed horribly, however, it should be noted that I didn\'t even try to read this book as I never seen a small book with so many weird symbols in it. I thought I was way in over my head.  The second time I forced myself to read this book...I felt like an idiot not reading it sooner. Although I ran away from being a physics major I still read it from time to time. It is very informative and actually is useful.  If only I wasn\'t so lazy at that moment in time maybe things would have turned out different. Some love to blame books for their short comings but this book I like it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7518,2558,'Ali Mohammed','','','','2016-02-05 12:00:00','2016-02-05 12:00:00','It is extraordinary book. I\'m master student, my background is very weak in quantum mechanics. This book gives me excellent background and help me to keep up with my studing in master degree.<br>It has excellent explanation for the concept and a lot of examples , problem solved,and proplem everything with details .  Its examples start from the beginner to advanse . I encourage student to read it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7519,2558,'Amy','','','','2020-05-02 12:00:00','2020-05-02 12:00:00','So far, this text is the best advanced quantum text I\'ve read.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7520,2558,'Carlos','','','','2020-12-13 12:00:00','2020-12-13 12:00:00','Great',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7521,2558,'Martin F. Melhus','','','','2014-03-07 12:00:00','2014-03-07 12:00:00','Zettili does a wonderful job of skirting the line between too much formalism and not enough rigor.  The large number of worked out example problems are a real boon to the student, and the topics are covered in a logical order.  Very good introductory text for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students (and possibly beyond - I haven\'t looked over the advanced topics in much detail).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7522,2558,'Ryan','','','','2013-12-08 12:00:00','2013-12-08 12:00:00','Despite a few errors throughout the text, this is by far the best book on Q.M. I have come across. There are many worked out problems throughout the text as well as an additional section dedicated to solving more problems at the end of each chapter. This book has been my saving grace in my grad course this semester.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7523,2558,'Tareq Afaneh','','','','2013-09-13 12:00:00','2013-09-13 12:00:00','Very nice book. Even with some minor mistakes, it\'s a very well-organized book. It has alot of solved examples at the end of each chapter so if you didn\'t understand the topic you can understand using the examples. Very good for basic learning about Quantum Mechanics',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7524,2558,'Rong','','','','2013-08-16 12:00:00','2013-08-16 12:00:00','I never like quantum, just need to take the exam.<br>I saw many books about quantum, but never get it.<br>However, this book is kind of clear and easy to understand quantum. I love it! Maybe I will love quantum because of this book, who knows?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7525,2558,'David Velasco Villamizar','','','','2013-06-15 12:00:00','2013-06-15 12:00:00','This is a very good book to study quantum mechanics, it has a full description of every topic and an many different examples and demanding problems that every simple physicist should have an idea of get an solution and an interpretation,',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7526,2558,'Bfish','','','','2013-05-20 12:00:00','2013-05-20 12:00:00','I was surprised by the quality. Step by step problems and really wonderful. I used it for my undergrad Quantum class and will definitely keep it on my shelf. It really is a lot better than Griffiths.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7527,2558,'Anas Othman','','','','2012-12-29 12:00:00','2012-12-29 12:00:00','كتاب للعالم نور الدين زيتالي مليء بالامثلة والبناء الرياضي الممتاز للكم<br>وهو ملائم للدراسة الذاتية كذلك ويغطي كل مقرر الكم في مرحلة البكالوريوس<br>برائي افضل كتاب كم للبكالوريوس وكذلك يكون مرجع للماجستير ولكل طالب فيزياء',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7528,2558,'rachel','','','','2014-09-07 12:00:00','2014-09-07 12:00:00','Absolutely the best 400-level quantum book out there. Loved the entirely worked-through examples - something really difficult to find amongst textbooks.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7529,2558,'Camilo','','','','2015-02-08 12:00:00','2015-02-08 12:00:00','Its a good text for undergraduate students',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7530,2558,'BorFai2016','','','','2015-10-04 12:00:00','2015-10-04 12:00:00','Love it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7531,2558,'Adailton Azevedo Araujo Filho','','','','2015-09-20 12:00:00','2015-09-20 12:00:00','Excelent',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7532,2558,'Marie F. Ramirez Cohen','','','','2015-01-30 12:00:00','2015-01-30 12:00:00','Excelent',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7533,2558,'Becky X','','','','2010-05-21 12:00:00','2010-05-21 12:00:00','I am a graduate student of materials science and engineering and used this book as textbook in an undergraduate QM course last semester. My comments next go first to its content level and readability, followed by a summary of its key contents and end with its strengths and weaknesses comparing to other QM books I have read.<br><br>This book is an intermediate level treatise aimed at audiences of undergraduates of physics and astronomy and graduate students of non-physics majors (e.g., chemistry and engineering), with a prerequisite of at least university general physics, linear algebra and differential equation. Some topics in it require advanced knowledge of classical mechanics and classical electrodynamics, for example wave packet and Zeeman effect, but one can easily pick them up through self-study of relevant chapters in classical undergraduate physics textbooks like the Berkeley Physics Course Series and the MIT Introductory Physics Series. Except the above, the book is self-contained and very easy to read, even for me!<br><br>It starts with experiments that historically invalidated classical mechanics in the microscopic world and presents key concepts which differentiates quantum mechanics from its classical counterpart (chapter 1), proceeds with fundamental postulates that the whole quantum formalism is based on and develops it with Dirac notation (chapter 2 and 3). These fundamentals are applied in one dimensional problems of potential step, barrier, well and harmonic oscillator (chapter 4), and further extends to three dimensional in both Cartesian and spherical coordinates, especially, the hydrogen atom QM model is developed and solved exactly(chapter 6). Chapter 5 and 7 treat angular momentum and its addition separately. All these applications are essentially for the single particle case, which is followed by quantum statistics for many identical particles in chapter 8. Since only harmonic oscillator model can be solved exactly, approximation methods are introduced in chapter 9 and 10 with emphasis on time independent and time independent perturbation theory. The whole book ends with the advanced topic of quantum mechanical description of scattering.<br><br>As mentioned in my comment title, the major strength of the book is that it has many worked examples. Besides, it is self-contained and very easy to read. The contents are just right, neither too redundant, nor does it skip major derivation steps that affect the ease of reading. I would definitely recommend it to everyone that needs a more or less rigorous introduction to QM!<br><br>With all the above being said, I want to point out several problems I had using it. Note my point is totally from a non-physics majored engineering grad. First, the book could treat the connection between quantum mechanics (QM) and classical mechanics (QM) better. I mean the author could mention how the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian formalisms could be applied to both mechanics and their only difference is that CM assumes the fundamental elements of matter is particle while QM assumes it is wave (called matter wave) subject to uncertainty principle and the macroscopic particle-like behavior is only a statistical result. Both the physical concept and the mathematical theory could be brought more clear if the author specifically make the conceptual and theoretical transition from classica mechanics to quantum mechanics more natural. Unfortunately, this book and many other elemental QM books tender to develop this part in an ambiguous tone, and students often go ahead with an impression that QM is mysterious with odd internal logic--it is definitely not!  Also, it would be nice to introduce some of the most exiting real world applications of QM like quantum computing. Right now, the contents are pretty much all quite traditional and well established like harmonic oscillator and hydrogen atom; adding some latest examples would make QM more exiting.  For this I recommend Harrison\'s Applied Quantum Mechanics. Last, it is not the author\'s fault by the publisher\'s--the binding is really flimsy, as was also mentioned by other reviewers. My experience was that it didn\'t even last for a whole semester before it physically broke into two parts from the middle... Mine is a paper back one BTW.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7534,2558,'Amol V','','','','2012-11-01 12:00:00','2012-11-01 12:00:00','The required text in my undergraduate quantum mechanics class was the book by&nbsp;\n  \nGasiorowicz\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    . I found the book lacking pedagogically, and bought Zettili to supplement the required text. My experience with Zettili was such that I now urge anyone taking an undergraduate course in quantum mechanics and struggling at all to buy the book.<br><br>The book does not assume any previous knowledge of quantum mechanics and is therefore self-contained in that respect. However, to anyone considering buying it for self-study, I must warn you that it comes with some prerequisites. You should be pretty comfortable with introductory level calculus-based mechanics and E&amp;M,. Mathematically, you should know basic linear algebra and partial differential equations. You should be familiar with using and manipulating complex exponentials. Also some knowledge of special functions may be helpful, but is not necessary. If you meet these prerequisites then this book will provide you with a solid foundation in quantum mechanics, and after reading it you will be prepared for the more advanced graduate level books.<br><br>The book begins by putting quantum mechanics into historical perspective and shows you how to deal with wave-packets(Chapter 1). Chapter 2 presents the mathematical background necessary for quantum mechanics, such as an introduction to the Hilbert space, wave-vectors, operators, and Dirac notation. Chapter 3 presents the basic postulates of quantum mechanics and the Schrodinger equation. In chapter 4 you learn to apply the Schrodinger equation in various bases to one-dimensional problems.  Chapters 5-7 deal with angular momentum, the hydrogen atom, and other simple three-dimensional problems. Chapter 8 is dedicated to identical particles, 9 to approximation methods such as the variational method or the WKB method, chapter 10 to time-dependent perturbation theory, and chapter 11 to scattering theory.<br><br>There are more topics in the book than that can reasonably be covered in a single semester, and we did not cover any material in chapter 8, 10 or 11 in my class so I can\'t speak for the quality of those. However, the rest of the book is phenomenal. The author has a gift for taking a complex subject and making it accessible to those without any previous exposure to the material. Most of the tedious, and non-intuitive mathematical derivations required to understand the concepts in the book are worked out in all of their gory details. Nowhere in the book did I feel I was lost because the book is so well self-contained. However, where the book really shines is in its numerous worked examples. Each chapter has 10-20 worked examples which is where you can really learn how to \"do\" quantum mechanics, and move beyond a mere conceptual understanding. Furthermore, each chapter has about a similar number of exercises left for the reader. Solving these can be difficult, but it is rewarding when you get it. These problems serve a didactic purpose, however they are typically not necessary in order to move forward in the book.<br><br>In conclusion, I would like to reiterate that I think this is the best introductory book in quantum mechanics out there. It is self-contained, and contains a wealth of material. The best thing about this book that I believe sets it apart from the rest is the numerous worked examples, which are invaluable in learning the subject. If you are taking a course that requires this book, consider yourself lucky, otherwise by this book as a supplement anyway.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7535,2558,'Adam Lantos','','','','2018-08-22 12:00:00','2018-08-22 12:00:00','Pros:<br>1) Many examples: The author goes through trivial examples first and then he gradually increases the difficulty.<br>2) Many problems: You will find many interesting and non-trivial problems here.<br>3) Some explanations are as clear as it gets. Also, some of them are more intuitive than any other explanation you might find in other books.<br>4) Tries to blend the structure of a traditional textbook with the structure of a problems book. This is done in a very successful way, although you can find better traditional textbooks on Quantum Mechanics that go into more detail on some of the material by offering more extensive intuitive explanations. But this is expected because those books are focused on only one approach.<br><br>Cons:<br>1) Some explanations are not so clear (although there are only very few of them) and some lack intuition (again, very few).<br>2) The aforementioned blending of two approaches means that a student will have an all-round better understanding of Quantum Mechanics but the reader will miss out of some details that could really deepen one\'s understanding. As I said, this is expected because a book cannot fully cover both approaches.<br>3) Although there is a huge selection of problems (and many are great), there are no answers on the back of the book. So, a reader who feels uncertain about his/her understanding of the material covered in a particular section, might not even know if he/she is doing something wrong in the exercises. That being said, there are many exercises that are proofs of something, so the above discussion is not applicable to these types of exercises.<br><br>In conclusion, even though I mentioned three negative points of the book, they are still not enough to overshadow the effect that the pros have. A great book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7536,2558,'CJ','','','','2012-05-01 12:00:00','2012-05-01 12:00:00','I just used this text for the first time while teaching an undergraduate course in QM. It is now my favorite QM book and I plan to use it from now on.<br><br>The main attraction for me was the large number of worked examples and the practical leanings of many of the calculations. In both of these traits it is better than Griffiths\' text, which is what I had used most recently.  However, I soon became a fan of the text style as well: Zetilli is very readable and straightforward in his presentation and covers all of the necessary historical and mathematical background (which may be shortened or skipped if the class has the math skills already).  While there were some typos, most should be caught by the instructor (or perhaps a sharp student!).<br><br>Other books I have used simply jump right into the Schrodinger equation or relegate some of the important calculations to the homework with no comparable examples in the text.  This can work if the instructor is willing to go \"off-book\" frequently to fill in the gaps but can be frustrating to a student working on his or her own.  Each chapter has numerous \"examples\" in the text, with end-of-chapter \"problems\" (with complete solutions) and \"exercises\" (unsolved, though there is an instructor\'s solutions manual). This makes it much easier for students to find a model for the type of problem they are learning how to solve.  In fact, I often listed helpful \"problems\" every time I assigned \"exercises,\" which my students greatly appreciated.<br><br>I strongly feel that one skill that faculty should cultivate in their students is the ability to read - really read - a text book on their own and learn from it.  For an undergraduate course this is a self-contained book that will serve as a valuable reference for self-study.  It is very readable and I expect that the students will be happy to have it nearby when they take QM in grad school.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7537,2558,'Austin Hoover','','','','2019-11-08 12:00:00','2019-11-08 12:00:00','I used this book as a supplement to Sakurai for a graduate QM course. In undergrad, we used Griffiths but really flew through it, so I was lacking in understanding of some methods and concepts. Sometimes I struggled to understand Sakurai on my first pass, and this book was really a big help to me, specifically the chapters on time dependent perturbation theory and scattering. For undergraduate students, it has a nice intro on the history of QM as well as a whole chapter on the math and notation you need to know.<br><br>So, I think this book has something to offer for students just beginning to study QM at the advanced undergraduate level, as well as those who are in a graduate course on the subject.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7538,2558,'Neil Aaronson','','','','2013-01-06 12:00:00','2013-01-06 12:00:00','I assigned this text for my Introduction to Quantum Mechanics class after researching several other similar books.  I specifically wanted to avoid using the very popular text by Griffiths because although it is very good, I have always found it unsuited to students who have had little or no exposure to the core concepts of quantum mechanics.  After examining several texts and getting feedback from my students, I decided to use this book.<br><br>I found Zettili\'s book to be superior to other introductory texts on quantum mechanics for several reasons:<br>1. It offers a plethora of solved example problems in each chapter,<br>2. It explains core concepts clearly and presents the material in a way so as to be accessible to students who have hot taken a rigorous quantum class before,<br>3. There are plenty of very good end-of-chapter problems which relate directly to the material taught in the chapter, and<br>4. The text is available in paperback at a relatively inexpensive price.<br><br>When the semester was over, I polled my students about whether or not I should change the book I use and they agreed that this text was quite good (and better than the other books they looked to for additional references) and recommended that I continue assigning it.  That may be the most spectacularly positive review I\'ve ever heard my students give to a quantum mechanics text!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7539,2558,'Stepan Stepanovic','','','','2019-02-20 12:00:00','2019-02-20 12:00:00','Best (elementary) QM textbook there is, very pleasant and enjoyable to read, a lot of solved examples and problems left for the reader to practice. Not to much useless text, the focus is on solved examples and practice. Very easy to follow, I am a chemist and didn\'t have any problem throughout the book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7540,2558,'Marco','','','','2016-06-07 12:00:00','2016-06-07 12:00:00','Having to choose a book to teach myself Quantum Mechanics (I am enrolled at university but in fact I am a self learner being of mature age), I evaluated many textbooks on the subject, included the most respectable ones that could be found around. It\'s clearly an important decision, having in consideration the vastity and complexity of the subject. At last, I picked Prof.Zettili\'s book. In fact, I found that this textbook offered such an unparalleled level of theoretical clarity and such a great wealth of solved problems to make it without any doubt extremely useful to a student in my position and I also strongly believe to ordinary students.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7541,2558,'Milos Ivanovic','','','','2017-10-03 12:00:00','2017-10-03 12:00:00','Lots of worked out examples together with all the theory needed in clear and precise arguments! Great book to study from for the first time as well as to have it as a quick refresh tool. It is a huge book, probably covers more than a one semester course at university.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7542,2558,'butsuritsu','','','','2011-12-15 12:00:00','2011-12-15 12:00:00','I am an undergraduate senior and was having trouble with QM, and was thinking of giving up QM, but I found this book and I went from being confused and totally lost in QM to being able to even read farther topics like Scattering theory. For example the book written by David Griffiths is very well written too, but it doesn\'t provide you answers to the question, it isn\'t rigorous and it doesn\'t provide as much information as you need for self-study, but this book does have answers to solved problems, it is rigorous and it provides enough information for self study that it feels easy to understand the subject itself. If you have an instructor David Griffiths would be as good, but if it is self study, this book is definitely better!<br> Also this book doesn\'t only explain about the subjects but have many examples, solved problems and exercises that you would never get lost as long as you keep doing them!<br> I personally think this book covers more than enough topics in QM that you can go to the next step like Quantum Field Theory afterward. So if you get lost in QM but need it, this book is your best shot!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7543,2558,'Anonymous','','','','2014-08-11 12:00:00','2014-08-11 12:00:00','When I first tried to tackle this book as an Undergraduate I found it as digestible as fishing weight. In time however I grew bored with wordiness of Griffiths, moved on from basic quantum to more advanced topics, and discovered that this book is actually a real gem for its worked examples and breadth. It\'s a great book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7544,2558,'Lucas nathan pereira silva','','','','2022-06-30 12:00:00','2022-06-30 12:00:00','Livro completo para um primeiro curso de estrutura da matéria ou mecânica quantica, ele lida bem com a mecânica ondulatória de schrodinger e com a mecânica matricial, não é um livro completo pois não cobre a parte relativistica, mas no que se propõe a explicar ele é perfeito.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7545,2558,'Adam Lantos','','','','2018-08-22 12:00:00','2018-08-22 12:00:00','Pros:<br>1) Many examples: The author goes through trivial examples first and then he gradually increases the difficulty.<br>2) Many problems: You will find many interesting and non-trivial problems here.<br>3) Some explanations are as clear as it gets. Also, some of them are more intuitive than any other explanation you might find in other books.<br>4) Tries to blend the structure of a traditional textbook with the structure of a problems book. This is done in a very successful way, although you can find better traditional textbooks on Quantum Mechanics that go into more detail on some of the material by offering more extensive intuitive explanations. But this is expected because those books are focused on only one approach.<br><br>Cons:<br>1) Some explanations are not so clear (although there are only very few of them) and some lack intuition (again, very few).<br>2) The aforementioned blending of two approaches means that a student will have an all-round better understanding of Quantum Mechanics but the reader will miss out of some details that could really deepen one\'s understanding. As I said, this is expected because a book cannot fully cover both approaches.<br>3) Although there is a huge selection of problems (and many are great), there are no answers on the back of the book. So, a reader who feels uncertain about his/her understanding of the material covered in a particular section, might not even know if he/she is doing something wrong in the exercises. That being said, there are many exercises that are proofs of something, so the above discussion is not applicable to these types of exercises.<br><br>In conclusion, even though I mentioned three negative points of the book, they are still not enough to overshadow the effect that the pros have. A great book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7546,2558,'Q','','','','2020-10-16 12:00:00','2020-10-16 12:00:00','An incredible and precise book to learn Quantum Mechanics. Each chapter consist of theory followed by examples with in depth explanation. At the end of each chapter, you can find problems to test your level of understanding.<br><br>Compared to other quantum mechanics books, this book has many problems and examples related to theory to test your knowledge. Apart from this, there are some topics which require advanced level of mathematics for the solution of differential equations, and this book approaches to its solution in a very precise manner.<br><br>This book is perfect if you want to master Quantum Mechanics.<br><br>The book contain following chapters: basics of quantum mechanics, formulation, 1D 2D 3D problems, H atom, Time dependent and Independent perturbation theory, WKB Method, Scattering, Variational Method.<br><br>You won\'t find relativistic quantum mechanics in this book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7547,2558,'Javier Peña','','','','2022-01-19 12:00:00','2022-01-19 12:00:00','Un muy buen texto para adentrarse en la mecánica cuántica, para mí es un texto que desarrolla muy bien los temas y es excelente para un curso introductorio o un primer acercamiento, claro, siempre y cuando se cuenten con bases sólidas de temas preliminares, el único pero que le encuentro es sobre la parte referente a teoría de momento angular, para este apartado podrían revisarse otros textos como el Sakurai.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7549,2558,'Shivam L Srivastava','','','','2020-06-15 12:00:00','2020-06-15 12:00:00','1. It\'s like a friendly conversation as you read it.<br>2. No errors! No typos! (So far I haven\'t found one)<br>3. Thicker paper and good ink.<br>4. Hundreds of problems in each chapter.<br>5. It beats Shankar, Ghatak, Sakurai, Griffiths in the presentation. Try the same section in all these and then try it in Zettili, you\'ll discover Zettili is always somehow better. (I don\'t mean Shakar and others are bad, I mean, Zettili is better)<br>6. It is in Latex!<br>7. Extensive Index.<br>8. Awesome graphs.<br>9. Remarks at the end of sections give you an out-of-the-box perspective.<br><br>It seems like the book has evolved through lots and weaning and addition. Somehow it is perfect.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7550,2558,'El Duderino','','','','2021-02-27 12:00:00','2021-02-27 12:00:00','Ich bin einer von jenen, die schon alle möglichen Physikbücher \"ausprobiert\" haben. Ein gutes Physikbuch sollte vor allem eines erfüllen: man sollte nicht irgendwann an eine unüberwindbare Wissensbarriere stoßen (bzw. Potentialwand :-)). Bei manchen Büchern muss man dann aufhören und woanders das Wissen nachholen. Nicht hier - alles wird von Anfang an erklärt und mit vielen Praxisbeispielen zum Selberrechnen untermauert, inkl. vielen geschichtlichen Fakten. Absolut Top!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7551,2558,'Nilesh Pandey','','','','2020-08-30 12:00:00','2020-08-30 12:00:00','It lays the foundation really well. However, you need to have some basic understanding of Vector Spaces. Even though it covers Vector Spaces in the second chapter, it\'s good to develop an intuition about it prior to starting directly with the second chapter. Because, it\'s notationally heavy and is extensively used in the later chapters.<br>Also, I found it better than Griffiths which takes a lot of time to introduce the Mathematical formalism.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7552,2558,'Rahul Maurya','','','','2020-07-09 12:00:00','2020-07-09 12:00:00','This is the best book of Quantum Mechanics . It is life changing book because the language of this book is very easy.<br> And problem of quantum mechanics is given in this book which is very standard question.<br>  I think this book is very important for all competitive examination related to physics.<br> This book is awesome.<br>  Thanks to wrote this book Zettili Sir !!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7553,2558,'Slenderfatman','','','','2018-03-23 12:00:00','2018-03-23 12:00:00','This book is great for beginners and those looking to do advanced quantum mechanics for later years at university. It has tonnes of solved problems which I personally need in order to understand how to use the maths and physics to solve problems. I had the David Griffiths one before this because I had heard it was a very popular book, the problem I had, which ultimately led me to send that book back was the lack of solved problems. So even though I had a decent intuitive understanding from the book, I could not understand how to translate that into my home works.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7554,2558,'Berufspenner','','','','2012-09-09 12:00:00','2012-09-09 12:00:00','Zettili hat mit diesem umfangreichen Lehrbuch eine gelungene Einführung in die Theorie und praktische Anwendung der Quantenmechanik geschaffen. Auf ansprechende Weise illustriert er die historische Entwicklung der Quantenmechanik, führt notwendige Mathematische Grundlagen ein und diskutiert die gängigsten Themen, die in Grundlagenvorlesungen vermittelt werden. Dieses Buch eignet sich besonders gut zur Vorlesungsbegleitung und zum Selbststudium, da es eine große Menge an durchgerechneten Beispielen im laufenden Text und gelöster und ungelöster Übungsaufgaben an den Kapitelenden bietet. Es ist sehr verständlich geschrieben und führt den Leser in einem guten Tempo an komplexe Zusammenhänge heran. Anders, als es häufig bei deutschen Autoren der Fall ist, fühlt man sich als Leser nicht auf der ersten Seite schon von mathematisch hochkomplex wirkenden Ausdrücken vom weiteren Lesen abgeschreckt. Daher eignet es sich auch sehr gut für Ingenieursstudenten und interessierte Quereinsteiger mit entsprechendem technisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Hintergrund.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7555,2558,'Undergrad Student','','','','2016-09-25 12:00:00','2016-09-25 12:00:00','This book provides a good historical background as well as building up concepts pedagogically. This book helped me through my first two  quantum mechanics courses and provided a lot of insight and details that I missed from lectures. I especially like the generous number of examples used to illustrate the concepts as well as warm-up exercises with fully worked solutions, followed by end-of-chapter problems. I am more of a visual learner and I need to see how problems are tackled and this text has really helped me learn the concepts.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7556,2558,'Pheromonik','','','','2012-11-06 12:00:00','2012-11-06 12:00:00','\"Not being able to make calculations, you miss the whole power of the theory\" (freely quoted) is the statement in the foreword of this book. And this is the concept of it. You won\'t find long texts about the interpretations of Quantum Mechanics and maybe you will also miss the elegant, but difficult, concepts presented in the books of for instance Lifshitz/Landau. But you will find<br><br>a) A systematic scheme. You will learn about the origins, about the Mathematical Framework and then you go deeper and deeper in the Concepts of nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics, including time-dependent perturbation theory and scattering theory. Zettili explains all in a very clear way.<br><br>b) Problems. A lot of problems. Those problems are the best thing in the book. They challenge you mind and they are good for a deep understanding of the subject. For around 1/5 of the problems (10-15 per chapter) there are also very good and clear solutions, something that is missing in most of the books I have seen so far.<br><br>I absolutely recommend this book to every beginning student in Quantum Mechanics, but also higher level student will benefit - you will find that you have often misses key points in the concept of QM and you will learn a lot of ways to tackle problems.<br>But I should also point out some disadvantages that you should be aware of<br><br>1.: It is a problem-solving book, I know. Nevertheless, a short introduction in the difficulties of interpretation should be in a QM textbook - just to make it clear, that there are conceptual problems in understanding.<br>2.: Most important: The mistakes. Maybe it is simply because this time I was really able to understand what the book is telling me - but somehow I have the impression, that there are more mistakes than usual. Not really much - but somehow, If you absolutely don\'t understand what the author is talking about, maybe the problem is the book, not you.<br>3.: Though in most of the cases the book is very clear, the chapter \"Rotations and Addition of Quantum Mechanics\" is difficult to read. It is a very technical chapter, yes, but nevertheless I think the author should have put really an effort in this to make it clearer<br>4.: The chapters of Many-Particles-Theory and Scattering Theory are quite short<br><br>5.: Not really a disadvantage, because it is outside the intended range of the books - but I really hope, the author will make also a book about relativistic QM.<br><br>It now may look like there are a lot of disadvantages - but don\'t fear it. In general, you won\'t notice them and it shouldn\'t stop you from buying the book - actually it is more like recommendation for the author.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7557,2558,'PROF E. D. Mshelia','','','','2011-11-27 12:00:00','2011-11-27 12:00:00','This book starts with the historical development of quantum mechanics and discusses the wave-particle duality exhaustively.Then the mathematical foundations which are necessary for the development of quantum mechanics are introduced.There then follow the postulates which are based on experiments and without which the  further development of the theory would not be possible. Applications are then made to one and three dimensional problems,the quantum mechanics of angular momentum, properties of identical particles, approximation methods in quantum mechanics (perturbation  theory) and scattering theory. The book concludes with an appendix on the Dirac delta function which is found useful in physics, the special case of angular momentum in spherical coordinates and the C++ code for the numerial solution of the Schroedinger equation. At the end of every chapter there are a selection of worked problems which greatly enhance the understanding of the subject<br>I really like the book and strongly recomment it to beginning undergraduates as well as advanced students who want get a grasp of the subject very well.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7558,2558,'prince of nerds','','','','2014-02-13 12:00:00','2014-02-13 12:00:00','Good and reasonably priced book to learn QM from on your own.  Nothing fancy and no thrilling unusual insights, just standard Quantum Mechanics presented in a systematic, structured manner.  You need the discipline to go systematically through it and do the problems,  it\'s not intended just for reading through.  After wearing out a few pens and filled more than a few legal pads with calculations you will be well prepared for advanced graduate-level courses.  Like with any serious QM text,  you should be familiar already with basic sophomore level math like differential equations and linear algebra before diving in.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7559,2558,'Nate','','','','2013-05-02 12:00:00','2013-05-02 12:00:00','It\'s a great book. The abundance of examples are wonderful. I don\'t understand why more authors don\'t take this approach.<br><br>One negative of the book is the notation. Why in the world would you write a vector as a letter with an arrow instead of bold? Along with hats on operators and a refusal to use notation such as the Levi-Cevita symbol to define the commutation relations, or |+&gt; and |-&gt; for spin states. When you get to the section for addition of angular momentum, you just get buried in the notation. Even well after I was fluent in the content, I still find the section difficult to read.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7560,2558,'ShankarArjune','','','','2013-02-19 12:00:00','2013-02-19 12:00:00','This book is great. I recently bought this book because the television shop, Numb3rs sparked an interest for me and alot of topics covered in this book were talked about on Numb3rs. If you like quantum mechanics or wanna learn quantum mechanics, this is the book for you. The only problem for this book is that the reader will need some experience in physics, math and mechanics, not to worry as there\'s no need for all the high class math physics, just some experience.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7561,2558,'Edward Parr','','','','2014-03-13 12:00:00','2014-03-13 12:00:00','This has more approachable explanations than many physics textbooks for complex concepts, and some good historic context. As with all physics textbooks covering this topic that I\'ve scanned over so far, I think it would benefit from a slightly more detailed historic context, as it sometimes jumps back and forth in time.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7562,2558,'Courtney J.','','','','2014-10-26 12:00:00','2014-10-26 12:00:00','Aside from a few inconsistencies in notation this is an acceptable quantum mechanics book. It is honestly very readable especially given the subject.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7563,2558,'Parijat Sengupta','','','','2013-05-03 12:00:00','2013-05-03 12:00:00','This is an advanced undergraduate text with a nice gentle introduction to standard material on beginning quantum mechanics. The first few chapters (1-4) are pedagogically sound though chapter 3 is bit incomplete since it does not fully unravel the connection between classical and quantum mechanics. Poisson brackets could have been more elaborately presented. Each chapter is followed by a fairly large collection of solved problems. Most of these problems serve as useful study guide for tests and routine homework assignments. Chapter 5 on angular momentum is standard material but is little bereft of physical insight. Sakurai\'s treatment of angular momentum in his introductory QM book is perhaps one of the best I have studied. Chapter 7 on addition of angular momenta including the all-important Clebsch-Gordon coefficients and Wigner-Eckardt theorem is revealed as mathematical constructs with little connection to the physical world. Isospin is the only cited example for C-G coefficients. As the book moves forward, physical explanations take a distinct back seat. Mathematical details get precedence and this is specially true in the chapter about scattering. In all fairness though, the worked examples in the scattering chapter are of a good quality. They helped me understand the subject of quantum scattering and solve test/homework questions. One topic that you will learn rigorously is the Hydrogen atom and its related radial and angular wave functions. The hydrogen atom and the symmetry and parity of its wave functions is the subject of several interesting solved problems in the sections on time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory and also to some parts of scattering theory.<br><br>Some topics, of considerable importance in theoretical physics research including Berry phase, time reversal symmetry, Green\'s function, propagators etc are either perfunctorily treated or completely left out. The author discusses about the adiabatic theorem (see QM by David Griffiths for a more lucid introduction) but leaves out Berry phase. Green\'s function is similarly introduced in the scattering chapter with hardly anything about the need to seek solutions to the Helmholtz equation with an impulsive forcing function. A few extra words about contour integration in this connection will also help.<br><br>Overall a very readable book (the first half is distinctly better) but some parts can be rewritten to offer more insight. More chapters on items of current interest that can be treated under a graduate QM framework must be included (i.e, if a third edition of the book comes out, I hope it does!). Reading this book in conjunction with David Griffiths, A.S. Davydov, Greiner will definitely help. This is from personal experience though. I do not expect everyone to concur. This book deserves a 4.5.<br><br>One last thing: Horrible binding, constant use will split the spine!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7564,2558,'AMRIT KUMAR SAHOO','','','','2022-02-27 12:00:00','2022-02-27 12:00:00','The book is fine but the cost is way too much. I got it at Rs. 1280. This book is good for course exams and competitive exams as well.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7565,2558,'Bhise Bajrang Hanmantrao','','','','2022-06-06 12:00:00','2022-06-06 12:00:00','Book are good but binding are very poor',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7566,2558,'AaMiD','','','','2020-03-31 12:00:00','2020-03-31 12:00:00','Paper quality is good (white not brown).<br>This book moves the history of quantum mechanics alongside, but it lacks depth. If you are looking a book for contemplating quantum mechanics \"Principles of Quantum mechanics\" (by R. Shankar) is a better option.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7567,2558,'Prasanna','','','','2017-12-23 12:00:00','2017-12-23 12:00:00','The book is very well written. But I don\'t know what is wrong with Wiley, they have printed the values of physical constants and some important formulas on the cover of the book. Can\'t they just use one more page? I did not expect this form Wiley. Else I would have given this five star.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7568,2558,'Abhishek pandey','','','','2019-10-17 12:00:00','2019-10-17 12:00:00','The most useful book for beginners as well as for experts in quantum mechanics. Very nice book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7569,2558,'ARUN VARGHESE','','','','2020-03-05 12:00:00','2020-03-05 12:00:00','Very good product for students as well as teachers',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7570,2558,'Lovin','','','','2020-07-19 12:00:00','2020-07-19 12:00:00','Nice book. Very standard',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7571,2558,'Krishnadas','','','','2017-06-28 12:00:00','2017-06-28 12:00:00','Its a good book. But not recommended for beginners​.It doesnt cover all the topics.Problems are very good.paper quality is very good, worth your money.Those who wanted to go deep...then surely this is your book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7572,2558,'Sanju Basak','','','','2020-03-03 12:00:00','2020-03-03 12:00:00','Cool and nice book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7573,2558,'Adeel','','','','2019-11-29 12:00:00','2019-11-29 12:00:00','Best for reference for PG',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7574,2558,'Sunil Beniwal','','','','2019-08-22 12:00:00','2019-08-22 12:00:00','Good book... You may go for it',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7576,2548,'Joel Knoll','','','','2021-04-28 12:00:00','2021-04-28 12:00:00','Having spent lots of time over the years with many other intro GR books (incl. Hobson, Carroll, d\'Inverno, A Most Incomprehensible Thing, Schutz, Zee), I like this one the best as an intro to the subject. At the very least it should be a go-to for a newcomer.<br><br>The main reason is that this book, more than any other I\'ve seen, focuses on symmetry. Not only is this the most beautiful/useful approach to relativity, but it also preps you well for similar concepts in other areas of physics, esp. gauge theories in particle physics. Indeed, I highly recommend checking out Cheng\'s other (harder to find) book \"Einstein\'s Physics\" for a highly pedagogical treatment of gauge theory and its structural similarity to GR. I.e. both get dynamics by postulating local coordinate symmetries.<br><br>Beyond that, the notation is modern and clear, the figures are well-done and useful, and overall the explanations are as good or better than I\'ve seen in other textbooks. The exposition of the geometric meaning of the Christoffel symbols is particularly illuminating. I also love the fact that Cheng gives a more basic treatment based on the metric line element before giving the full tensor apparatus toward the end of the book. To me, this is a nice way of offering the physics \'punch-lines\' up front for those who don\'t have time or need to dive into the full tensor formalism.<br><br>This IS only an intro book, though. But for that purpose, it\'s the best imo.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7577,2548,'OTP','','','','2013-11-27 12:00:00','2013-11-27 12:00:00','I am a physics graduate student without pre-knowledge about GR, and I must say:<br><br>This Ta-Pei\'s book is MUCH better than Sean Carroll\'s textbook &lt;&lt;An Introduction to General Relativity: Space and Geometry&gt;&gt;, simply because the Ta-Pei\'s book provides much more detailed and rigorous explanation with more illustrative diagrams than what the Sean\'s book does.<br><br>For example, Ta-Pei book provides two different ways to derive the Geodesic equations on the page 88, 106 and 320, whereas Sean is only able to provide one way to derive it on the page 105. I always want to know how the Geodesic equation is related to the Lagrange. and Ta-Pei\'s book explains this very well, whereas Sean does not explain anything about it.<br><br>Many description on Sean is unclear, he tries to teach me how to do GR by using Differential Geometry without teaching me how to do Differential Geometry. This causes me to waste lots of time to figure out what Sean\'s book actually means. For example, Sean is awful to explain what \"One-form\" means. Rather than introducing such complicated concept from Differential Geometry, Ta-Pei teaches me how to do GR by introducing highly self-contained mathematical concept. In Ta-Pei\'s way, I do not have to look for more advanced math textbooks in order to understand what he really means.  This saves me enormous amount of time. Some description on Ta-Pei is marvellous. For example, on the top of the page 147, \"the roles of time and space are interchanged when crossing over the r=r*.\" This concise description captures the whole feature of the event horizon! That is awesome!<br><br>I also like the diagrams on Ta-Pei\'s book, for example on the page 106 the fig 6.3, which is simple but means a lot to me. Another example, fig 7.1 on the page 123, which helps me to understand worm hole.<br><br>Ta-Pei\'s book provides detailed solutions to almost all the exercise questions (Including the Review questions in the end of each chapters). This is so great. I learnt a lot how to solve GR problems from him. In contrast, Sean\'s textbook does not provide any solution - clearly, Sean does not care about teaching, and is a lazy or busy teacher.<br><br>Ta-Pei\'s book is an intermediate level on GR. Sean\'s book is a little more advanced than Ta-Pei\'s book. However, Readers who finished Ta-Pei\'s book could continue to read more advanced GR book without touching Sean\'s book. So please do not waste time on Sean\'s book! My honest suggest!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7578,2548,'Anthony T. Lam, DMD','','','','2012-02-14 12:00:00','2012-02-14 12:00:00','Let me preface this review by saying I majored in physics and finished college 14 years ago.  I\'ve always wanted to study GR but went to dental school right after college and so never got the chance.  With the latest developments in cosmology, ie, dark flow, dark energy, dark matter, I finally couldn\'t suppress my curiosity any longer.  The framework for understanding cosmology is GR.<br><br>I own the other GR books by Hartle, Schutz and Carroll.  Each of them is more a textbook to accompany a lecture course than one for the self-taught.<br><br>This book reads more like a novel.  The author begins with why Einstein tackled the problem of generalizing special relativity and why that generalization would also be a theory of gravity (Equivalence Principle).  The book includes a good intro to special relativiy (SR) at the intermediate college level.  This is followed by Minkowski\'s spacetime which is a deeper mathematical description of SR.  From there, the next few chapters elucidate on the Metric tensor and the curvature of spacetime.<br><br>After you\'ve learned the Metric, there is a chapter on black holes and 3 chapters on cosmology (expanding universe, inflation, cosmic microwave background, the cosmological constant and how it can be used to take into account dark matter and dark energy, and much more).  I particularly enjoyed the cosmology part of the book.  It gives you a taste of how modern physicists are using GR to tackle the biggest questions in cosmology.  And it gives you a break to absorb the theory before going deeper mathematically.<br><br>The final part of the book gives a complete treatment of GR using tensors and ends with a chapter on gravity waves.  This is the most difficult part of the book but as with the rest of the book, everything is well explained and there are no gaps in logic that would otherwise frustrate the autodidact.<br><br>You must be willing to do some of the problems at the ends of each chapter.  To get the most out of this book, you should read it with pencil and paper in hand.  Solutions to the more difficult problems are provided in the back of the book which is great pedagogically.<br><br>I would rank this up there with Shankar\'s QM and Griffiths\' Intro to EM.  It is by far the best intro book on GR out there.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7579,2548,'JAFO','','','','2020-03-20 12:00:00','2020-03-20 12:00:00','There is nothing I dislike about this book.  I looked at a lot of the grad-level books in GR and found them too deep to begin this subject without significant challenges.  I stumbled upon this book and bought it based on other reviews.<br><br>Having read most of the text already, the first three parts are easier to digest than the graduate-level books.  I had been studying tensor analysis using McConnell\'s and differential geometry by Sochi prior to reading this book; this helped further to grasp the concepts in Cheng\'s book.  I am not saying this book is a cake walk, far from it, but I found it more readily to be able to digest the material.<br><br>Cheng starts this topic in the shallow end of the pool with a review in SR and Minkowski 4D space, which I recall very well from my undergrad physics days.  He carefully walks you through the topics before getting to the deep end of the pool in GR using full tensors.  Fantastic intro book on GR.  I doubt there is a better book out there for the undergrad.  It would make a good reference for a grad-level course using a more advanced text.<br><br>I have finished this book and now reading Wald\'s book on GR.  This book and Bohmer\'s book helped prep me to read Wald\'s book with little intimidation.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7580,2548,'Lane R. Miller','','','','2014-06-15 12:00:00','2014-06-15 12:00:00','I graduated with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1988 and quickly entered management; therefore my mathematics have not be extensively exercised for many years.  Having had an affection for physics ever since being a teenager, I am finally at a point in my life where I have the time to do a little self study.  After purchasing over 50 books that touch on relativity, I have found my favorite GR book in T.P. Cheng\'s masterpiece.  I have used it as my guide to understand tensors, which were completely new to me, and digest and derive the foundational concepts and equations including EP, curved space, curved spacetime, covariant derivatives, parallel transport, Riemannian curvature, general covariance, Einstein\'s field equation, Schwarzschild\'s solution, and the famous applications of the theory to the precession of Mercury\'s orbit and the gravitational deflection of light.  While I have supplemented my study with extra reading from Hartle, Hobson, Wald, Kenyon, Foster, Lawden, Stephani, D\'Inverno, Gron, Ohanian, Zee, Kennedy, Alder and Misner, T.P Cheng\'s book has been my guide throughout.<br><br>With my background, I find Cheng\'s balance of mathematics and physical insight perfect for my journey through the beauty and complexity of GR.  Cheng\'s approach to teaching the necessary mathematical tools in parallel to the physics has helped me over the \"tensor hurdle\" while maintaining my interest to press on.  Books that spend the first chapters only dealing with the math sapped my motivation and give the impression that GR is mathematics, not physics.  In a sense, Cheng\'s book is how Einstein created the theory - learning the necessary nomenclature and Riemannian geometry to help describe his incredible physical intuition.<br><br>I have worn out my paperback version, including many notes-to-self in the margins.  Therefore, while I will always keep and cherish this ruffled version, I have just purchased a new hardback version to every now and then admire in unadulterated form this gem of physics education.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7581,2548,'Customer','','','','2019-07-29 12:00:00','2019-07-29 12:00:00','After getting through \"A Most Incomprehensible Thing\" by Collier, and \"Student\'s Guide to Vectors and Tensors\" by Fleisch, I decided to tackle a real textbook.  After much consideration, I chose this one, and I\'m glad I did.<br><br>It \'s written at the advanced undergrad and beginning grad level, so you\'ll need calculus and undergrad physics under your belt.  It\'s also written with self study in mind.  There are many explanatory notes in the margins, as well as \"boxes\" with interesting and detailed side excursions.  Each chapter has descriptive Review Questions, followed by detailed problems.  The back of the book has all the answers to the Review Questions and solutions to most of the problems.<br><br>It uses a \"physics first\" approach, which is very useful to help understand the concepts.  After prep on Special Relativity, it covers results of GR  (e.g. curved space metric) and cosmology, with only as much math as necessary.  The full-bore tensor formulation is in chapters 12 and 13 followed by a chapter on the derivation of the Einstein Field Equations, then back to physics.<br><br>With appropriate preparation, this is an excellent book to learn GR and cosmology.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7582,2548,'Chris J.','','','','2011-08-15 12:00:00','2011-08-15 12:00:00','The best introduction to General and Special Relativity I have ever read! I got frustrated trying to self study from Schutz, Hartle and Carroll simply because there was no way to check if I was doing the exercises correctly. They are all well written books, but if you want to learn GR on your own this is the book to start with (Although, it doesn\'t hurt to have them as a supplement). Most answers are included to the exercises and there are plenty of worked examples.<br><br>The layout of the book is very close to that of Hartle. There are boxes that stray a bit from the main text to go into more detail or to work out an example.<br><br>He also walks you through the process of showing that Maxwell\'s equations are invariant under the Lorentz transformation, which I found particularly interesting because all of the other introductory books that I have read (If I remember correctly) neglect this, or take it as a given that you have seen this before.<br><br>At half the price of other books on GR in the same category, there really is no reason why you shouldn\'t add this one to your collection. Especially if you are learning the subject on your own.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7583,2548,'Robert F.','','','','2017-04-07 12:00:00','2017-04-07 12:00:00','This is an exceptional book. Professor Cheng has gone to considerable length to keep the explanations and derivations very clear. I am particularly pleased with the discussion questions and problems with solutions.This is one of several books I have read to teach myself GR. It is by far the most understandable text. However, GR is a difficult topic and this book requires great concentration. (i have a PhD in physics.) If your background is not strong in linear algebra and differential equations, I suggest you start with a book by Peter Collier, \"A Most Incomprehensible Thing\" which is a self-study book aimed at a more general user. Collier\'s book provides a crash course in the necessary mathematics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7584,2548,'Temesgen Kebede','','','','2015-07-20 12:00:00','2015-07-20 12:00:00','This is one of the most outstanding physics books in the field I have ever read. Combines phenomenology and theoretical/Mathematical structure with great tact, insight and generosity.<br>The book is definitely current with modern developments in the field and has extensive bibliography and references.<br> I would definitely prefer this book to teach a first course on General Relativity and Cosmology at a graduate or Advanced Undergraduate level(for both Physics or Mathematics Majors) to any other book.<br>This pedagogic pearl deserves five stars and that is the grade I am awarding this beautiful book.<br>I am also a great fan of the Advanced Quantum Field Theory/ Particle Physics book Co-Authored by the distinguished professor with separate solutions manual.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7585,2548,'Juan L.','','','','2020-01-11 12:00:00','2020-01-11 12:00:00','An excellent pedagogical textbook to learn Einstein theory of Relativity and cosmology. This is the book I have used it to learn the basics concepts. It allowed me to understand better Peebles’s physical cosmology, Dodelson’s cosmology. I highly recommend to use this textbook as a companion to the comprehensive treatise by Misner-Thorne-Wheeler’s Gravitation',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7587,2548,'Michael Peleg','','','','2015-04-15 12:00:00','2015-04-15 12:00:00','The book presents the best known intriguing and beautiful aspects of general relativity such as black holes, the big bang and the expansion of space. The author took care to make it as understandable as possible by a plenty of good explanations and by using the easier settings such the spherically symmetrical ones. I have an Msc in electrical engineering and I like physics. I barely managed to understand the main parts of the book after reading each chapter a few times. It was a great experience and it took many weeks.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7588,2548,'dan mckeown','','','','2014-08-05 12:00:00','2014-08-05 12:00:00','The best introduction to GR out there, this gem also goes into advanced material that is well elaborated. what\'s more, he provides insights about the physics of spacetime that I have read nowhere else. this book was written by a great physicist who didn\'t mind sharing his personal insights into the subject, remarkable!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7589,2548,'LRS','','','','2013-11-08 12:00:00','2013-11-08 12:00:00','This book provides a basic introduction to cosmology without complicated mathematics. While I enjoy higher level math and physics, I wanted a cosmology book that would provide the basics with simple conceptual descriptions. This book provided me with what I was looking for.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7590,2548,'PersonReviewing','','','','2012-03-11 12:00:00','2012-03-11 12:00:00','I love this book on General relativity and cosmology. It is fun to read and covers tensor analysis latter in the book. It doesn\'t assume that you already know tensor analysis, but it does require understanding calculus and differential equations. It is an undergraduate text though.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7591,2548,'Terry','','','','2014-04-21 12:00:00','2014-04-21 12:00:00','This book has a fairly comprehensive introduction to gravitational waves (Chapter 15) -- currently of interest from the perspective of the Inflationary Theory of cosmology.  Recommended for an intro to this aspect of cosmology.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7592,2548,'George J.','','','','2018-03-20 12:00:00','2018-03-20 12:00:00','Perfect!  As described',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7594,2548,'Joseph Palazzo','','','','2015-03-08 12:00:00','2015-03-08 12:00:00','Best introduction to GR.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7595,2548,'Jiachen','','','','2019-10-19 12:00:00','2019-10-19 12:00:00','Good for introduction to general relativity. The book is thin enough so that you can actually read through it as a textbook instead of a reference. That is quite important. Most other books are thick and you won\'t be able to finish them.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7597,2548,'Han','','','','2015-10-11 12:00:00','2015-10-11 12:00:00','By far the best book about General Relativity and its connection to Cosmology. I used it to learn for a GR oral exam and a Cosmology oral exam and got an A in both. But more importantly, I really enjoyed reading it and there are so many explanations here that can\'t be found anywhere else. While other books seem to be lost in details, Cheng manages to get straight to the point and explains lucidly why the concept beeing discussed is important. I tried to read Weinbergs classical book, but found this book much better',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7598,2548,'Jakob','','','','2016-04-23 12:00:00','2016-04-23 12:00:00','By far, the best introduction to how general relativity is used in cosmology. Of course, many important topics are missing, but I especially enjoyed its brevity. In contrast,most other books on GR and cosmology are intimidating big',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7599,2548,'odlan','','','','2023-06-21 12:00:00','2023-06-21 12:00:00','Recebi hoje. Gostei da impressão e aspecto geral. Não há uso de cores.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7600,2548,'Jean Corriveau','','','','2023-03-19 12:00:00','2023-03-19 12:00:00','This book covers the essential topics with the right amount of mathematical complexity and clear explanations. Obviously, a good knowledge of calculus and trigonometry is expected.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7601,2548,'Anon','','','','2020-04-29 12:00:00','2020-04-29 12:00:00','I’ve been preparing a short course on general relativity over the past year after after teaching special relativity. Yes I was using all the main classic texts by Weinberg, Wald, Schutz and the much referred to Misner, Thorne, Wheeler (though I find that a slog). To answer my questions on GR I usually had to read multiple books to piece the story together. Chang is different because it guides you through and fills in so many gaps that the other don’t. It’s such a well written book and I’d thoroughly recommend it for any undergraduate or postgraduate. There is only one other book that I’ve encountered that is perhaps as good if not better. That’s Hobson, Efstathiou and Lasenby’s General Relativity. That’s outstanding. There’s also Reflections on Relativity by Kevin Brown which complements all the above. But Chengs book is a must - I will be recommending it to students.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7602,2548,'Dr. P. Cramer','','','','2019-11-06 12:00:00','2019-11-06 12:00:00','This is the best book I have used on  relativity. As suggested by one of the other reviewers it is an excellent follow on from Lambourne\'s O,U. text and ,in many ways ,is rather better. I couldn\'t make sense of some of the latter book without relying heavily on Fleisch\'s Student Guide to  Vectors and Tensors. This last is also a truly excellent text, which like Cheng\'s and Lambourne\'s provide full solutions to problems.Beware  some other general relativity texts with problem solutions as these tend to rely on techniques not explained in text e.g. Walecka\'s Introduction to GR.<br>Cheng\'s  clarity of exposition is exemplary and his footnotes very informative. No steps in derivations are jumped or passed over with \'just do this and this\' when following the recipe given is far from easy.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7604,2548,'MR MICHAEL ELLIOTT','','','','2015-09-21 12:00:00','2015-09-21 12:00:00','This book is aimed at the advanced undergraduate level and is a step up from the excellent books by Peter Collier and Robert Lambourne. It includes many questions with outline solutions, and each equation follows carefully from earlier results with related cross-references. I bought the paperback second edition as this has corrected the errors noted by another reviewer.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7605,2548,'anonyme','','','','2012-04-02 12:00:00','2012-04-02 12:00:00','Il s\'agit d\'une très bonne introduction à la relativité générale et la cosmologie d\'un niveau similaire à \"A First Course in General Relativity\" de Bernard F. Schutz. La particularité de cet ouvrage est d\'aborder la RG dans une première partie sans l\'arsenal tensoriel puis de l\'introduire progressivement ensuite. Je trouve que cette approche en deux temps est originale et fonctionne bien. J\'ai pris beaucoup de plaisir à sa lecture.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7606,2548,'Nate','','','','2013-09-11 12:00:00','2013-09-11 12:00:00','This book attempts to teach General Relativity at a sophomore level of sophistication. It takes the \"let\'s ignore tensors instead of trying to teach them\" approach. It certainly makes the material easy to learn, but the material is General Relativity, what need is there for a book on one of the most advanced topics in physics from one of the least advanced groups of individuals?<br><br>This makes for a book that is highly repetitive and overly simplified that chooses to belabor the lower level concepts instead of developing the more fundamental and important topics.<br><br>That being said, it does have a purpose. It\'s a pretty solid candidate as a companion reader. It will drill into your head concepts that are very likely to be overlooked and skipped in favor of more advanced knowledge. I knew the Riemann tensor and differential form formulation before I understood quite a few implications of the EP. This book emphasized the EP to such a degree that I now know it pretty well.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7607,2548,'Jay T.','','','','2019-05-15 12:00:00','2019-05-15 12:00:00','Overall, meets the objective of a presentation of the subject matter at a rigorous level.<br><br>Author does tend to dump in equations from other subjects that are unnecessary to understanding the main subject, but OK if you just skip over the parts of the math that are not relevant to the subject.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7608,2548,'Tom Foster','','','','2016-04-24 12:00:00','2016-04-24 12:00:00','A very well written text. Ideas and concepts are presented clearly. If you are just starting GR, this is an excellent text. However if you are looking for a text to use as a reference to review specific topics this is probably not the book to buy. The author introduces each topic in a very gradual manner (to help the beginning student) and this results in partial explanations being spread throughout the text.  Just understand what you\'re looking for.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7609,2548,'Alfred M. Powell','','','','2020-04-30 12:00:00','2020-04-30 12:00:00','Excellent Technical Book on Relativity, Gravity and Cosmology',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7610,2548,'Good Samaritan','','','','2018-10-19 12:00:00','2018-10-19 12:00:00','The book thinks that you know your stuff. Not for people new into relativity.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7611,2548,'DJR','','','','2015-05-24 12:00:00','2015-05-24 12:00:00','Good',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7612,2548,'j_a_o','','','','2019-08-23 12:00:00','2019-08-23 12:00:00','Nice book for undergraduates and very up to date in many aspects. Schwarzschild is nicely developed for a bachelor level in Sciences.<br>I would recommend this as the first book on the subject, followed by Carroll’s notes, McMahon, MTW, Lightman-0Price-Teukolsky..., Wald and Hawking and Ellis, in this order.<br>Thorne and Blandford at hand for the development of the physics underlaying the energy momentum tensor as well as the compiled info for the state of the art in experimental on Gravitation.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7613,2542,'Kenneth James Michael MacLean','','','','2002-07-11 12:00:00','2002-07-11 12:00:00','This book explains some basic concepts in physics so well that even someone who doesn\'t like physics might enjoy it! \'Six Easy Pieces\' are 6 lectures from Feynman\'s complete \'Lectures on Physics\', chosen for their accessibility to the general public.<br>Feynman, like all great teachers, understands his subject so well that he is able to explain the concepts behind it in clear, simple terms.<br>There are 6 chapters in the book, all of them generalized lectures on topics in physics. Feynman explains the structure of the atom and there is a very excellent description of charge and how atoms attract each other.<br>I really enjoyed the chapter on the relationship of physics to the other sciences, especially chemistry and biology. There is even a section on the relationship of physics to psychology.<br>Chapter 5 is on gravity and there is a great explanation of Kepler\'s laws of planetary motion and Newtons law of gravitation. These ideas are explained so understandably, I felt like I received a clear conceptual picture of what is happening.<br>But the highlight of the book for me is Chapter 6 on quantum behavior. Feynman explains the wave-particle duality and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle so well that I really felt I understood the basic ideas. I am just a layman but I found I could really get what he was saying.<br>Another thing I liked about the book is its honesty. If there is something physics does not understand, Feyman admits it, outlining the parameters of knowledge but acknowledging deficiencies.<br>The author doesn\'t come across as a know-it-all, and doesn\'t \'talk down\' to the reader, something which I find refreshing in a science book.<br>Like any book by Richard Feynman, this one is a delight to read. Informative, honest and with that unique Feynman ability to make even the most complex ideas understandable to the intelligent layman.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7614,2542,'Good book','','','','2023-02-22 12:00:00','2023-02-22 12:00:00','Good book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7615,2542,'Neri','','','','2009-02-17 12:00:00','2009-02-17 12:00:00','Insights and elucidation on physics and physics in relation to other sciences. Feynman is the master at bringing his genius and knowledge to a level of understanding by use of analogy and making it seem approachable by anyone. It was interesting for the topic itself and the method of his teaching. I learned a few things here, somethings went over my head.<br><br>Feynman\'s quote of Gibbon \"The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispostions where it is almost superflous\" was interesting. Especially since this quote is the context of the forcing of a square peg through a round hole in the education of Nero to be prepared for the duties of Emporer and those possbile resultant problems. One must have a happy dispostion towards learning as well as an element of apptitude otherwise???<br><br>I tried to follow along with what the book was talking about by reinforcing it with what was available out there like on You-Tube of Feynman lectures etc. There are a lot of resources to support this book. Feynman also often goes back to how his father instilled or encouraged scientific curiostiy in him as a youth (which I got from his talks available on You-Tube, not this book). Asking questions, not getting bogged down in names of things but imagining the consequences/reasons for things, and in asking questions more than giving answers to spark and encourage the investigative spirit.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7616,2542,'King Odysseus ','','','','2022-10-17 12:00:00','2022-10-17 12:00:00','This is a good book to start to understand physics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7617,2542,'velikielgrande','','','','2015-08-25 12:00:00','2015-08-25 12:00:00','Wanted to learn some physics, heard about Feynman, bought the book and managed to learn a few things... One thing I didn\'t like is that he believes that everything is physics and the other sciences are just a branch (with mathematics not being a science at all) but that is just a flavor of his personal beliefs and it doesn\'t reflect his teaching skills. Starting with atoms and what was known about them in his time - he managed to develop a series of lectures (six in total) that clarified all the covered fields for me and intrigue me to look for more in other places (his lectures are dealing more with motivation for the developed theories and how we came to those than with mathematical proofs for the theories - I don\'t find this a minus because it is important to understand the ideas on some \"intuitive\" level before you reach for mathematical apparatus to develop them...)<br>All in all - I am a satisfied customer...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7618,2542,'Yesenia','','','','2022-08-19 12:00:00','2022-08-19 12:00:00','My daughter is happy with her book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7619,2542,'Gabriel Sohn-Hunt','','','','2022-02-05 12:00:00','2022-02-05 12:00:00','I loved the imagery and the similes towards nature and physics, rather than from a physics to nature standpoint. Valuable read even for those who know nothing of the subject.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7620,2542,'Rene Gomez','','','','2022-03-07 12:00:00','2022-03-07 12:00:00','The book arrived in a timely manner. No damage to the book. I bought this book to learn about Richard Feynmans thought process.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7621,2542,'Science Struggler','','','','2007-06-07 12:00:00','2007-06-07 12:00:00','The book is relative short, but all Feynman writings are excellent.  Dispite holding a degree in Physics, I did not find the \"pieces\" all that easy, but very worth-while reading.  The lectures increased in difficulty, but all helped me understand the subjects better.  (I\'m only bitter about not being aware of Feynman and his writings / lectures when I was an undergrad in college.)  I expect to re-read this little volume multiple times, because dispite it\'s claim to be \"easy\", the material is very rich, and mostly Feynman leads you from the known to the unknown.  I certainly recommend this book to all students of physics, from high school students to graduate students.  Other science and medical students will probably benefit from it also.  Interested layman may find it worth attempting.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7622,2542,'AbrahamC','','','','2020-07-14 12:00:00','2020-07-14 12:00:00','I was never mathematically inclined, and still get mild anxiety when confronted with formulas.<br><br>However, after reading Six Easy Pieces, I now understand the theories behind the science, and it’s pretty interesting stuff.<br><br>I definitely recommend this as part of any essential reading list, mainly for how it will expand the range and types of things you’ll know a bit about.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7623,2542,'Harlan Kanoa Sheppard','','','','2017-01-11 12:00:00','2017-01-11 12:00:00','This book is enjoyable and brief, while the ideas remain relatable and easily digestible. I\'d suggest this to either a grade school student to foster their interest in the ways the world works or to an adult who\'s rediscovering what they\'d lost to the sands of time.<br><br>Scientific knowledge covered in this book is still useful, mostly because of the author\'s easily understood style. He\'s like one of those really good, easily relatable teachers that you find every once in a great while. If you\'d like a taste, you can find videos of him lecturing online.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7624,2542,'Innis A. Lusk','','','','2019-09-27 12:00:00','2019-09-27 12:00:00','What can I say.  This is a smaller selection of the Feynman papers so it is a very good book for someone wanting to read just a few of the lectures.  As a physics student myself, I find Feynman\'s lectures to generally be well thought out and coherent.  Overall a good purchase as the original lecture books are very hard to find (or expensive).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7625,2542,'Suzanne L. Molnar','','','','2021-01-18 12:00:00','2021-01-18 12:00:00','I bought this to try to get a freshman physics student\'s understanding of the basics.  Feynman was a fantastic teacher, and this is a very readable (if challenging for someone who never took physics after high school).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7626,2542,'Elijah','','','','2022-04-29 12:00:00','2022-04-29 12:00:00','Amazing entry physics book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7627,2542,'D. Hereford','','','','2019-12-25 12:00:00','2019-12-25 12:00:00','Superbly written yet easy to understand. A personal favorite and ever present reference. All sciences are dependent on physics, including geology, engineering, biology, and many more, including but not limited to psychology! Do yourself a favor and download this book. You may feel compelled to order the paper version for your library and those humans you know are worthy.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7628,2542,'James Schuerch','','','','2022-04-08 12:00:00','2022-04-08 12:00:00','really makes you think...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7629,2542,'JD','','','','2013-06-20 12:00:00','2013-06-20 12:00:00','This book proved to me that Feynman is truly an expert in his field. The book appears to be outdated in several areas, but this just proves to me that Feynman was on the cutting edge of science during his lifetime. Many of the questions he asked are currently solved, but some are still beyond reach.<br>Feynman is an excellent teacher that gets you thinking, and learning.<br>My only beef with the book has less to do with him and more to do with me. I utterly could not read or understand chapter four. For the most part, the rest of the book required little to no background in physics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7630,2542,'Tomasz Surowiec','','','','2019-06-21 12:00:00','2019-06-21 12:00:00','Despite the combined length of prefaces and an introduction, I can truly recommend this book, because of Feynman\'s ability to explain complicated topics in an intuitive way :)<br>The only thing I didn\'t like was the way he just started using complex variables in the last chapter without explaining his motivation for it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7631,2542,'Ryan Yockey<span class=\"a-icon a-profile-verified-badge\"><span class=\"a-profile-verified-text\"></span></span>','','','','2020-12-23 12:00:00','2020-12-23 12:00:00','If you want to start to understand the principles behind physics and Quantum mechanics from a simple perspective this is the book to start with.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7633,2542,'Benny Hu','','','','2016-12-25 12:00:00','2016-12-25 12:00:00','I\'m a 4th-year college student studying Maths and Econ. Well I only need to take 3 physics classes, but since I was a little kid I was fascinated by the word \"Physicist...\" and after I read 2 of his books I decided to look into something  more academically oriented. Very clearly explanations from a ture physics master. People say that after you read Feynman\'s books, you think you can become a physicist yourself, hahaha',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7635,2542,'Kindle Customer','','','','2020-04-23 12:00:00','2020-04-23 12:00:00','Well written and well presented, anything from Feynman is in this manner. Would have liked a bit more depth but \'easy\' is what was promised.  Looking forward to reading the more difficult pieces!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7636,2542,'Bob Powell','','','','2014-06-18 12:00:00','2014-06-18 12:00:00','Richard Feynman was one of the world\'s greatest scholars and educators. There are few people who can have claimed to have discovered an actual law of physics and so he stands out only for this. His ability to take the difficult subjects of physics and explain them to ordinary mortals without scaring away the audience is legendary.<br>These lectures provide the basic insights into the fundamental laws of our universe in a language that anyone can understand. The material is full of humour and entertaining into the bargain.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7637,2542,'Meg','','','','2019-02-03 12:00:00','2019-02-03 12:00:00','I read this book to my step-son a few years back when he was 8. The concepts Feynman introduces in this book are so exciting and a great introduction to physics, for any age. Feynman is the best.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7638,2542,'Systems Guy','','','','2015-10-08 12:00:00','2015-10-08 12:00:00','Excellent book, clear explanation of some basic principles of physics.  Should be required reading by those taking physics in high school and college since it provides a good overview tying together related things that are often taught independently in physics, chemistry and biology.  There are some interesting B&amp;W videos from the 60s that show Dr Feynman lecturing.  Wish I could have been in his class.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7639,2542,'ravi natarajan','','','','2021-02-15 12:00:00','2021-02-15 12:00:00','Awesome book.  Must read for 10th grade physics students.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7640,2542,'SRC','','','','2016-05-26 12:00:00','2016-05-26 12:00:00','I have the full set of physics lectures by Feynman, but this book is a great starting point.  I have a set of these Essentials of Physics books (e.g. also Six Not So Easy Pieces, QED) and they are very enjoyable to read.  I do so before my grand-niece  visits to help me explain physics in a simple way to a 8-year old.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7641,2542,'John Gibbons','','','','2012-10-26 12:00:00','2012-10-26 12:00:00','Completely accessible for anyone with an interest in physics.  Mr Feynman was one of the most important theoretical physicists of the last century and a fantastic communicator.<br>This and \"Six Not So Easy Pieces\" are a pleasure also for students of physics.  Highly recommend also \"Surely You Are Joking, Mr Feymnan\" and \"What Do You Care What Other People Think\" for any reader.<br>Read all of his books that you can.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7642,2542,'K. Min','','','','2013-10-05 12:00:00','2013-10-05 12:00:00','Feynman is my favorite physicist and though I\'ve only taken a couple of physics classes, I am amazed by science and have been interested in it since I was a kid.  I think this book is a great intro to some of the foundational principle of science and as a layman, I really enjoyed it and it gave me additional understanding of some of the core concepts.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7643,2542,'ogilbert','','','','2020-02-10 12:00:00','2020-02-10 12:00:00','An excellent set of introductory Physics lectures, still quite relevant and current. Dr. Feynman is both an encyclopedia and a great teacher.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7644,2542,'jonnijones','','','','2015-05-19 12:00:00','2015-05-19 12:00:00','I had checked this out of the library because I had heard about it from \"somewhere\".  I enjoyed it but knew it wasn\'t something I would just casuallly read then put aside.  So I bought my own copy and really enjoyed it.  I enjoyed it so much I went online to YouTube and watched his lectures.  Awesome!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7645,2542,'bill','','','','2012-11-24 12:00:00','2012-11-24 12:00:00','Feynman was a genius, a polymath.  He comes cl;ose to making these \"easy\" subjects understandable to the ordinary person who is not a genius.  The charts in the Kindle edition are small and hard to read which is unavoidable considering the size of the Kindle screen.  I will try it on my Kindle Fire.  On the Fire a small part of the screen can be enlarged.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7646,2542,'Thomas J. Pareso','','','','2019-07-07 12:00:00','2019-07-07 12:00:00','If you know just a little math, give it a shot, you will learn a lot and have a very interesting experience.  Fear not.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7647,2542,'Charles Dana Bolam,','','','','2020-02-20 12:00:00','2020-02-20 12:00:00','This book arrived February 17, 2020. Note on package \" Bad Barcode \".  Excellent, Well written',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7648,2542,'Rod Newman','','','','2018-12-12 12:00:00','2018-12-12 12:00:00','I’ve met this gentleman, and consider him to be one of the great physicist of all time.  I’ve seen is name referred to in many scientific books.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7649,2542,'shelly','','','','2014-05-19 12:00:00','2014-05-19 12:00:00','Considering that Six Easy Pieces were parts of a two volume Tome of lectures from Dr. Feynman that was intended to explain all of modern physics, it is amazingly easy to read and, with some reflection, understand.  Dr. Feynman has the gift of being able to explain very difficult subjects in standard English with almost no equations.<br><br>I heartily recommend it!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7650,2542,'Dany P.','','','','2018-08-15 12:00:00','2018-08-15 12:00:00','I assume you need a little more knowledge about physics to understand everything. I mostly had trouble with the final chapter. Overall, it was a great and inspiring work.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7651,2542,'Charlie','','','','2013-06-14 12:00:00','2013-06-14 12:00:00','Emphasis on \"essentials\", and I needed a rudimentary approach. Also, think painless. The author\'s presentation was not boring and it was enlightening for this ordinary man. I enjoyed reading it and I could relate to the examples and analogies. Do yourself a favor and let Feynman teach you what you should already know. If you already know, the book is entertaining as well.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7652,2542,'Steve','','','','2009-11-07 12:00:00','2009-11-07 12:00:00','Having read several excellent books about Dr. Richard Feynman, and his critical insights into modern science as well as his lively personality and unorthodox way of thinking, I thought I should do him justice and read his own words about his ideas and vision of the world.  He is as spectacular as I hoped.  I read a chapter every morning and feel greatly enriched by that daily experience.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7653,2542,'Metallurgist','','','','2007-10-17 12:00:00','2007-10-17 12:00:00','The intention of this review is to give the reader enough information to decide whether or not to read this book.  That Feynman was perhaps the foremost physicist of the middle of the 20th century goes without saying.  He was also a great educator and popularize of the most complex ideas of classical and modern physics.  All well and good, but what about this book?<br><br>In short -- I enjoyed this book, but thought that it was a bit unfocused.  This was due to the fact that the book was taken from his three-volume lecture series on physics, which was prepared from his lectures to undergraduates of Cal Tech in the early 60\'s.  The editors chose what they considered to be the six easiest lectures and put them in a single small volume, as contrasted to the three much larger volumes that make up the whole series of lectures.  The lectures included in the book were not consecutive lectures from the whole series, so there was a bit of a continuity problem with the flow of the text.  Also, because so much has been left out from the complete lecture series, the subjects that are covered are done so in a very fragmentary manner.  Read this book to get a flavor for Feynman as a teacher, but not to get a complete picture of any of the subjects that are covered.  While I liked the book, I liked Feynman\'s \"The Character of Physical Law\" even more.  It was also based on a series of lectures (covering some of the same material), but all of the lectures in that series were provided and as a result the book was more focused and self contained.  I recommend both books, but if you only want to read one, I would recommend \"The Character of Physical Law\".  Both give a flavor of Feynman\'s teaching style and they are making me consider buying the full three volume lecture series, even though the list price for the three books (plus a volume on problem solving) is almost $200.<br><br>In more detail -- The lectures covered in this small book are:<br>--- Atoms in motion - Very general overview of atoms, molecules and their relation to vapor pressure, melting and solidification.  Very general and very elementary.  Well suited for a high school student.<br>--- Basic Physics - Very general overview of the scientific method, classical and modern physics.  Also very general and suitable for a high school student.<br>--- The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences - Here, in my opinion, Feynman digresses quite a bit, throwing in a bit of chemistry (including the Krebs cycle) and a bit of biology (including DNA).  This chapter is suitable for an advanced high school student or undergraduate college student.<br>--- Conservation of Energy - These last three chapters start the meat of the book, focusing of basic physics topics.  The conservation of energy is taught from a simple analogy of the conservation of children\'s blocks.  He follows the same approach he used to describe the first law of thermodynamics; using the concept of reversible machines being the most efficient possible to derive the law of conservation of energy. If one assumes the law of the conservation of energy one can prove that a reversible machine will be as efficient as possible, so both are statements of the same thing.  I knew this approach from a study of thermodynamics and while not stated as such, Feynman allowed me to see that the concepts of reversibility and the conservation law are not only the same thing but that they are much more general than just applying to thermodynamics This alone was worth the price of the book.  It illustrates the power of his teaching style.<br>--- The Theory of Gravitation - I was disappointed with this chapter.  Instead of following Newton\'s thinking he states Newton\'s law of gravitation at the beginning of the chapter and then mentioned that it came directly for Keppler\'s second and third law.  I was hoping for more.  This chapter illustrates the difficulty in choosing just a chapter from a larger work.  These ideas are developed more completely in the complete lecture series (there is also a separate book containing Feynman\'s lost lecture on this subject).  On the plus side, there was an excellent discussion of why there are two tides pre day, not just one.  Feynman, corrects the off stated idea that the second tide is due to the moon pulling on the earth.  Again, in my opinion, this discussion is also worth the price of the book.<br>--- Quantum Behavior - This is taught from the standpoint of the two-slit interference experiment with photons and electrons.  This touches the heart of quantum behavior, but just touches it.  Again there is much, much more in the complete set of lectures.<br><br>All in all --  Some of the lectures were a bit too easy.  The choice of only 6 easy lectures from a three-volume set of lectures made the text somewhat unfocused.  Some of the lectures were very incomplete, but they are all pure Feynman.  Feynman makes physics exciting (or at least interesting) and provides information to readers of all backgrounds.  I recommend this book to high school students, first year college students and teachers.  Those with a more advanced physics background may find this book a bit too basic, but they may see new ways of looking at things.  I also recommend Feynman\'s \"The Character of Physical Law\", which covers some of the same material, but in a somewhat more focused manner.  In fact I liked it more than this book.  I gave it five stars and this book only four.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7654,2542,'Stephen','','','','2010-10-30 12:00:00','2010-10-30 12:00:00','Before selecting a physics book to read and report on, I had never heard of Richard Feynman.  While researching different possibilities, however, I was intrigued that Physicist Richard Feynman was described as an \"icon for late twentieth-century physics (Davies, Paul, introduction)\" and whose achievements were comparable to those of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.  I wanted to find out more about this man.<br> Six Easy Pieces is compiled from a series of lectures that Feynman taught in an introductory physics course at Caltech. He was accustomed to teaching upper level physics courses.  In 1961, in an effort to reenergize the undergraduate physics department Feynman was asked to teach a two year series of an introductory physics course to freshman and sophomore. As the title suggests, Feynman selected the six most basic lectures (Atoms in Motion, Basic Physics, The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences, Conservation of Energy, The Theory of Gravity, and Quantum Behavior) to be included in the book.<br> Feynman, possessing an incredible amount of knowledge, and accustomed to teaching graduate students, had a difficult time explaining the concepts of physics in terms that freshman and sophomores could understand.  Said he, \"I thought to address [the lectures] to the most intelligent in the class and to make sure, if possible, that even the most intelligent student was unable to completely encompass everything.\" As a result, many students dreaded the class and stopped coming.  I had similar feelings while reading the book.  The concepts were incredibly fascinating, and were sometimes explained in a way that made it clear.  Other times, however, the concepts (which I\'m sure are still fascinating) were explained in such a way that I believe only an upper level graduate student could understand them.  This turned me off a bit as it sometimes felt like I was just reading words on a page with no prayer of grouping them into cohesive and understandable thoughts.  Faculty members and graduate students later replaced the empty seats of the lecture hall.  Similarly, I think that this book would be most embraced by trained physicists.<br> Overall, I enjoyed Six Easy Pieces.  Despite being difficult to understand, it stretched my knowledge of several concepts and helped me to see the world in a way that I had not previously seen it before.  I give it 3 and a half out of 5 stars.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7655,2542,'Fry Boy','','','','2018-11-30 12:00:00','2018-11-30 12:00:00','This book consists of the first six chapters of Feynman\'s (pronounced Fine-man\'s) lectures on physics.  The introduction and prefaces are all historically of interest.  In the first chapter, he goes into a lot of discussion about atoms and, frankly, it seems more like a chemistry intro rather than one for physics.  When he gets to Chapter 2, he talks about \"basic physics\" but most of the time is spent on quantum physics which might be a little overwhelming for someone new to physics.  Kind of glosses over Isaac Newton and all those others and starts talking about leptons and such.  Chapter 3--\"The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences\"--is of tangential interest but doesn\'t really get to the heart of anything.  However, 69 pages in, he really gets going and becomes instructive.  His explanation of conservation of energy is clear and sound, but his discussions of gravitation (Chapter 5) and quantum behavior (Chapter 6) are the best I\'ve read and worth the price of the book.  Note that Chapter 6 is essentially about the wave-particle nature of light and Heisenberg\'s uncertainty principle.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7656,2542,'Garrett Mccutcheon','','','','2014-08-22 12:00:00','2014-08-22 12:00:00','This is a great physics primer for the lay reader. Feynman\'s verve shines through here, and his explanations of physics, its problems, and how it relates to the world are lucid. While physics has progressed quite a ways since the 1960s, this book primarily deals with the foundations and fundamentals of physics, which haven\'t changed in hundreds of years.<br><br>The only criticism I can lay against this work is that Feynman\'s physicalist bias shines through, especially in the chapter regarding physics\' connections and implications to other subjects. Here, like any staunch physicist, Feynman lauds physics as the one true science, revealing his fundamental physicalist nature. One would do well to contrast this chapter against a work like \"What Makes Biology Unique\" by Ernst Mayr, where you will find a very critical refutation of this physicalist mentality',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(8122,3053,'WooCommerce','woocommerce@bookiino.com','','','2023-09-02 14:30:31','2023-09-02 14:30:31','Order status changed from Pending payment to Completed.',0,'1','WooCommerce','order_note',0,0),(8123,3054,'WooCommerce','woocommerce@bookiino.com','','','2023-09-02 14:50:59','2023-09-02 14:50:59','PayPal transaction ID: 9X385628FJ668644P',0,'1','WooCommerce','order_note',0,0),(8124,3054,'WooCommerce','woocommerce@bookiino.com','','','2023-09-02 14:51:00','2023-09-02 14:51:00','Order status changed from Pending payment to Completed.',0,'1','WooCommerce','order_note',0,0),(8125,3055,'WooCommerce','woocommerce@bookiino.com','','','2023-09-02 20:36:09','2023-09-02 20:36:09','PayPal transaction ID: 65R01455RB273035S',0,'1','WooCommerce','order_note',0,0),(8126,3055,'WooCommerce','woocommerce@bookiino.com','','','2023-09-02 20:36:10','2023-09-02 20:36:10','Order status changed from Pending payment to Completed.',0,'1','WooCommerce','order_note',0,0),(7658,2542,'Drjackl','','','','2020-01-22 12:00:00','2020-01-22 12:00:00','The six easy pieces talks about physics at the 50,000 foot level. Feynman was clearly a guy who understood the principles of physics , not just the math and problem solving techniques. Sometimes the mathematical approach is easier to follow, but Feynman’s descriptions of the principles are really rewarding, if you hang with them long enough to get it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7660,2542,'Chris Mason','','','','2013-03-01 12:00:00','2013-03-01 12:00:00','This is a great intro to some key physics concepts. However, like a chain of undersea mountains, all you get to see are a few peaks rather than the underlying structure. It is made clear that this is merely a selection from the much longer lecture series and thus it lacks a narrative flow that most popular science books aim for. I enjoyed it thoroughly because I had some familiarity with the material covered and Prof Feynman is such an entertaining lecturer. That said, I think that if you are looking for a good introduction to physics concepts, you\'d be better served by a more complete book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7661,2542,'Michael J','','','','2018-05-14 12:00:00','2018-05-14 12:00:00','Unfortunately I suffer from innumeracy, or numerical illiteracy, so I bog down half way through the book.  Note that all of these lectures are available on line, so if you want to study content as opposed to collecting another Feynman book, you should search the Internet for the Feynman lectures.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7662,2542,'Steve','','','','2017-10-06 12:00:00','2017-10-06 12:00:00','The book was a good review of some aspects of physics. I took physics in college 50 years ago, and i t was mostly using formulas to solve problems. I enjoyed to examples in the book, but it would not have prepared me to solve the type of exam questions that I had on my exams.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7664,2542,'castor','','','','2020-03-01 12:00:00','2020-03-01 12:00:00','Found it overly simple but good for anyone who is not accustomed to the material.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7665,2542,'Gerald R. Stein','','','','2014-03-28 12:00:00','2014-03-28 12:00:00','This book was written for incoming freshmen physicists at Caltech. The lecture assumes minimal knowledge on the part of the students which makes it ideally suited for the non-scientist who wants to get a better understanding of physics. Unlike most college professors teaching the sciences, Feynman doesn\'t get carried away with the math.<br><br>A good read.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7666,2542,'Michael J. Nichols','','','','2018-01-07 12:00:00','2018-01-07 12:00:00','Wonderful book.  I\'m glad that the editor didn\'t pick six hard pieces.  But, then again, I\'m an arts guy who wanted to learn a little science.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7667,2542,'Philip','','','','2016-10-24 12:00:00','2016-10-24 12:00:00','Feynman was an extraordinary teacher . Even though you think you know your stuff really well , you are always learning a lot more . So interesting ! Must read for anyone interested in Physics !',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7668,2542,'marini gianluigi','','','','2013-03-13 12:00:00','2013-03-13 12:00:00','This book has been written in a very enjoyable style, and I came to appreciate fully Mr.Feynman; it can be a great help to newcomers and also to people who already have some understanding and knowledge of physics. I recommend it fully; I already ordered the second book (not so easy pieces !)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7669,2542,'Leandro','','','','2017-08-16 12:00:00','2017-08-16 12:00:00','Less than I hope so, being a freshman in collage 95% of this book I already knew, still worth it for feynman and that 5%',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7671,2542,'ligardner','','','','2012-12-20 12:00:00','2012-12-20 12:00:00','Great little book.  I would definitely advise also getting the CD of Feynman\'s lectures on Physics.  Because he was such a terrific lecturer, hearing the words (which are edited nicely in this volume) is important.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7672,2542,'MakeAdimE','','','','2012-11-19 12:00:00','2012-11-19 12:00:00','so far so good.  Very much a physics primer.  There have not been super intense concepts and the author has a unique voice and vision of the material and why it matters.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7673,2542,'product user','','','','2018-03-19 12:00:00','2018-03-19 12:00:00','As advertised',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7674,2542,'Gopa Sen','','','','2013-02-04 12:00:00','2013-02-04 12:00:00','Of course this book is only for those who appreciate physics and are exposed to the trials and tribulations of teaching the subject to the undeserving masses.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7675,2542,'B.','','','','2013-11-09 12:00:00','2013-11-09 12:00:00','I really enjoyed this read, but was glad that I had taken calculus, which seems almost necessary in order to fully understand it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7676,2542,'Gary L. Goldsmith','','','','2017-03-02 12:00:00','2017-03-02 12:00:00','Very informative.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7677,2542,'Sir Red','','','','2014-12-04 12:00:00','2014-12-04 12:00:00','Elementary physics at its fineness. Out of date (1963) but worth the read.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7678,2542,'Pilgrim from Munich','','','','2015-02-25 12:00:00','2015-02-25 12:00:00','This is a wonderful set of essays that are still relevant today.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7679,2542,'sapanaya','','','','2011-05-06 12:00:00','2011-05-06 12:00:00','I enjoyed the rhythm of his speaking. We can see how he thought about the physics to understand the world.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7681,2542,'dbailey','','','','2016-12-11 12:00:00','2016-12-11 12:00:00','satisfactory',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7682,2542,'Mijung Lee','','','','2015-06-16 12:00:00','2015-06-16 12:00:00','Interesting!!<br>Easy to understand..',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7683,2536,'Metallurgist','','','','2007-10-17 12:00:00','2007-10-17 12:00:00','The title of this book probably scares off many readers, but it need not do so.  This book is a sequel to Feynman\'s \"Six Easy Pieces\".  Both books consist of lectures taken from Feynman\'s three volume lecture series, which was used for a two-year introductory physics course at Cal Tech.  \"Six Not So Easy Pieces\" is not as easy as \"Six Easy Pieces\".  The latter is accessible to most high school students, but the former is not. The not so easy pieces are:<br>· Vectors<br>· Symmetry in Physical Laws<br>· Relativistic Energy and Momentum<br>· Space-Time<br>· Curved Space<br><br>\"Six Easy Pieces\" was a bit unfocused because it covered a number of different topics.  In contrast, \"Six Not So Easy Pieces\" is focused on just one topic, Relativity Theory.  Feynman uses each topic to build up to Einstein\'s theory of gravitation, which is not the easiest subject to grasp.<br><br>Relativity theory is generally covered in one of two ways.  Some books give a general treatment, focusing on the many implications of the theory, with no mathematics.  At the other extreme are texts that require considerable knowledge of matrix algebra and differential equations.  This book takes a middle ground.  There is some math, but only some simple algebra and vector analysis.  (The vector analysis does go beyond what is taught in high school, venturing into 4 dimensional vectors, but Feynman shows this to be only a modest extension from the typical 3 dimensional vectors.)  Feynman dispenses with the usual introduction to relativity theory that employs moving trains and lightening strikes.  Instead he starts with a superb analysis of the Michelson-Morley experiment (alone this is worth the price of the book) and the Lorenz transformation that was developed to explain the null result that Michelson-Morley obtained.  He then uses this as the starting point for the analysis of special relativity.  This is followed with a discussion of relativistic energy and momentum, subjects that are generally left out of \"popular\" treatments of relativity theory.  The final chapter discusses curved space and Einstein\'s theory of gravity.  These topics will be hard for people without some basic physics background, but are not too advanced for the intended audience of college undergraduates, although Feynman admitted that only the best students did as well as he had hoped.<br><br>As with all of Feynman\'s books there is a wealth of knowledge packed a small package (in this case a bit less than 150 pages) and while these six lectures are not a substitute for a complete course in the special and general theories of relativity, it does hit the highlights and as usual provides very valuable insights for readers with all levels of knowledge.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7684,2536,'Nothing Too Technical','','','','2016-12-29 12:00:00','2016-12-29 12:00:00','Brilliant lecture; quite clearly informative about some of those difficult theoretical science \"tangles\" of modern day physics.  I plan to read R. P. Feynman\'s other published lectures.  But for now, at least I have a better, basic understanding of how one gets from point A to point B, and why it matters.  However, it is helpful to remember some Euclidean geometry and vector equations to keep from getting totally lost along the way.  Sometimes I found myself reading several sections twice or three times over, just to make certain that I was grasping the material.<br><br>Given the world\'s growing population and the looming climate change America\'s governments are especially so unwilling to deal with, I would recommend that more of earth\'s inhabitants acquaint themselves with Professor Feynman lecture materials, in preparation for moving to another planet, or perhaps another galaxy, even.  Astrophysicists have been quietly discovering thousands of planetary systems, outside of the Milky Way.  And they appear remarkably unique.  In some, a gas giant, like Jupiter, has it orbit closest to its sun, while planets of smaller masses are further out.  A brave new world!  No one is certain if the current acceleration of our expanding universe, as we know it, will ever slow down, for our space probes and our inhabited space ships to reach any of those alternatives \"to life on earth.\"<br><br>So, as one prepares for the eventual colonization of other planets, we had better make certain that Plan B, \"living on earth,\" remains viable for us to fall back on, if absolutely necessary.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7685,2536,'Kien Choong','','','','2020-08-28 12:00:00','2020-08-28 12:00:00','When I was a boy, our advanced math teacher said (something to the effect that) only a handful of people understood Special Relativity when Einstein first came up with it.  So I had the impression that Special Relativity is something difficult to understand.  But thanks to this book by Feynman, I think anyone can understand Special Relativity with a little effort.  (It\'s probably easier for people with high school math, but I suspect it\'s possible to understand Special Relativity even without high school math.)<br><br>That said, I do have some background in high school math, and I read the book twice. (Making written notes the second time.)  And admittedly, I probably haven\'t understood everything about Special Relativity.  But I do feel that I understand Special Relativity enough to be able to explain what it is (and why it\'s true) to someone else (who is interested).<br><br>Thank you, Mr Feynman, for taking the trouble!  And thank you to the editors and publishers for making Mr Feynman\'s work available to the general public.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7686,2536,'Customer','','','','2022-07-16 12:00:00','2022-07-16 12:00:00','Genius is a word over used. It should be left for the very few, Mozart, Beethoven, Socrates, Netwon. Einstein, and yes, Feynman.<br><br>These lectures contain complicated ideas, and even if you struggle to follow the math, Feynman moves beyond the math to explain in simple terms.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7687,2536,'Innis A. Lusk','','','','2019-08-08 12:00:00','2019-08-08 12:00:00','First I\'m a Physicist, so I have a built in bias.  I have the hardbound Lecture series, but bought this to read in bed, travelling, or just out in the yard.  I have lent this to other non-physics types so I\'ll take their word that this makes these subjects easier to understand (not easy to understand).  Like any Feynman book, it will take a read or two to fully understand what he is getting at.  This book just makes it easier to reread each section as needed.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7688,2536,'Bernie','','','','2009-06-23 12:00:00','2009-06-23 12:00:00','This is not a traditional layman\'s book as it does assume some background in calculus and physics -- but it is not overloaded with endless mathematical equations, just the critical ones. If it\'s difficult to appreciate the meaning of an equation like F = d(mv)/dt -- then it\'s probably best to skip the book -- but if it resonates with you, the book is very approachable. Though his style is informal, Feynman\'s words are carefully chosen.  It is not especially long -- but it should be read very carefully.  The book contains excerpts from his famous lecture series -- this particular collection focusing primarily on special relativity with some vector math, symmetry, and a touch of general relativity tossed in.  If you have a layman\'s working knowledge of special relativity, this is a nice way to cement it into place with a very intuitive development from a moderately basic level.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7689,2536,'David E. Mosteller','','','','2015-01-13 12:00:00','2015-01-13 12:00:00','This book has allowed me to verify some of the concepts I thought were true, based on other books I have read but did not totally understand.  Feynman does not presume that the reader can mentally leap from one mathematical concept to another without a conceptual bridge which he usually provides.  His examples around how the longest elapsed time is the shortest spacetime distance are excellent.  His explanations of time dilation due to speed and gravity are very clear.  I really like this book.  The subjects in this book can be understood by anyone who has some physics and math background but it is not going to work for someone who has no background or has no intention of taking some time to ponder and study.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7690,2536,'Drjackl','','','','2020-05-09 12:00:00','2020-05-09 12:00:00','I’ve been reading pop physics books for a long time and this one has by far the best explanation of curved space and relativity I’ve seen. I recommend getting the hard copy (paperback) rather than the kindle version. The equations in the kindle version are impossibly small as are the graphics. The presentation detracts from the overall experience. Nonetheless, this is well worth reading',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7691,2536,'M. Daniels','','','','2018-02-28 12:00:00','2018-02-28 12:00:00','Um okay I\'m a bit late in life to tackle this level of math but have become addicted to puzzling it out.  I\'ve already read 6 easy pcs and QED.  This book is the next step and lights up some of what QED on touched on.  Not my first book on POR and I\'m really glad to have another angle to view these situations.  Yeah the red books are on my someday list... someday soon.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7692,2536,'T. Ballou','','','','2017-08-02 12:00:00','2017-08-02 12:00:00','Readers who are not physics majors, but who are trying to nonetheless understand important concepts like relativity, will find this fascinating.  This is my second copy, I gave my original to a college aged grandniece one evening after a lively discussion of the film, Interstellar. That said, it\'s probably best read in modest doses, as the class lectures were originally given.  I keep it a a Larry Krause book on my bedside table.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7693,2536,'JR81','','','','2019-10-15 12:00:00','2019-10-15 12:00:00','Feynman’s approachable style gives a treatment to these complex problems that kept me thinking and engaged. I left with a much better (although still I’m sure incomplete) understanding of some topics that really requires some mental concentration.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7694,2536,'SRC','','','','2016-06-28 12:00:00','2016-06-28 12:00:00','I had the 3 Feynman\'s lectures on physics for the longest time, but I find these little books including the Six Easy Pieces and Six NOT-SO Easy Pieces, the Q.E.D, very readable and very giftable to young and old, those who are interested in trying to understand.  Feynman felt physics and his teaching is to help you feel physics.  Great read',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7695,2536,'Dominic Luongo','','','','2010-02-12 12:00:00','2010-02-12 12:00:00','1. Will require much effort to get through, guaranteed<br>2. So don\'t read if you haven\'t read \"Six Easy Pieces.\"<br>3. Or go ahead and read it if you really want to.<br>4. If you\'re interested in physics there\'s no wrong place to start.<br>5. However, keep in mind, in order to get a greater understanding of physics you\'ll have to start with the basics.<br>6. Then, once you\'ve worked your way back to these lectures you\'ll feel more satisfied with how much more you\'ll absorb.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7696,2536,'Vina','','','','2020-01-05 12:00:00','2020-01-05 12:00:00','Very good read. Flynman was an awesome person to be able to learn things from him is awesome. This book was in brand new condition.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7697,2536,'Helen','','','','2018-01-16 12:00:00','2018-01-16 12:00:00','A classic for anyone who enjoys basic physics and the concepts behind our universe. I taught a course using this book years ago and the kids just ate it up, even though the book was already over  years old.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7698,2536,'Mosier Bill','','','','2015-07-13 12:00:00','2015-07-13 12:00:00','these essays offer fascinating views into Feynman\'s approach to learning and knowledge. They also provide wonderful presentations of phenomena that at some levels are simple but at other levels wonderfully subtle and complex. they are occasionally a little out of date, but Feynman\'s insights to what we know will never be out of date.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7699,2536,'Hirez Gene','','','','2019-10-21 12:00:00','2019-10-21 12:00:00','Just enough Newtonian physics review to launch you into basic modern physics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7700,2536,'AllenAnway','','','','2014-03-21 12:00:00','2014-03-21 12:00:00','Although originally intended for physics students, Richard Feynman\'s writing is so clear, so understandable, that non-scientists can learn a great deal.  One can learn the particular physics, like relativity, and one can learn also how science gets done, the essence of what science is --- as taught by the master.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7701,2536,'Kindle Customer','','','','2010-07-20 12:00:00','2010-07-20 12:00:00','This book tackles the next set of material continuing from \"Six Easy Pieces\".  It\'s not that these pieces are any more \"not-so\" than the previous ones, just a bit more abstract; but essential for understanding physics.  Feynman\'s writing is top-notch (as usual), and the book is relatively short, so it isn\'t too large of a time commitment.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7702,2536,'PF','','','','2020-01-19 12:00:00','2020-01-19 12:00:00','This was a Christmas gift for another.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7703,2536,'D. Hereford','','','','2020-01-24 12:00:00','2020-01-24 12:00:00','Best physics author. Ever.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7704,2536,'Barbara Swindlehurst','','','','2020-02-05 12:00:00','2020-02-05 12:00:00','Easy to follow',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7705,2536,'J. Heivilin','','','','2013-06-18 12:00:00','2013-06-18 12:00:00','While this presentation is for non-technical people, it does take some focus to understand the concepts. However once you grasp them your mind can open and you\'ll understand much more about physics and the scientific method.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7706,2536,'Professor','','','','2011-04-13 12:00:00','2011-04-13 12:00:00','These are an excellent set of lectures. You really do not need too much of mathematical sophistication beyond standard calculus and geometry concepts. If you wanted to start on Einstein\'s general theory of relativity without any prior knowledge, this book is a good place.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7707,2536,'GP22','','','','2014-09-03 12:00:00','2014-09-03 12:00:00','Love all of Richard Feynman\'s work.  I come from a science background so I would likely enjoy this more than someone not interested in the sciences though.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7708,2536,'Jim Parshall','','','','2017-09-11 12:00:00','2017-09-11 12:00:00','An excellent book by one of the best teachers who ever lived.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7709,2536,'SUJIT K PRADHAN','','','','2018-08-16 12:00:00','2018-08-16 12:00:00','Completely satisfied with the purchase.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7710,2536,'Edmond','','','','2016-03-29 12:00:00','2016-03-29 12:00:00','Feynman is an interesting dude. I like science so I learn a lot from his scientific mind.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7711,2536,'david perkins','','','','2016-07-21 12:00:00','2016-07-21 12:00:00','The title says it all, as this needs much more in-depth thought to understand',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7712,2536,'Robert M.','','','','2013-02-16 12:00:00','2013-02-16 12:00:00','Both Einstein and Feynman were both revolutionaries.<br><br>That\'s what scientific progress needs: REVOLUTIONARIES<br><br>Not a lot of small minds and souls, writing dull papers about nothing.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7714,2536,'Mo A Ansari','','','','2013-06-03 12:00:00','2013-06-03 12:00:00','This is subject I have a strong curiosity for. Mr. Feynman makes it easy for a not so accomplished student of Phtsics.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7715,2536,'W. Richter','','','','2013-02-18 12:00:00','2013-02-18 12:00:00','This is a great follow-on to Six Easy Pieces. Where that book left off, this one continues in the same fashion.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7716,2536,'S. Bankes','','','','2015-05-29 12:00:00','2015-05-29 12:00:00','Brilliant.  Feynman was so good at communicating these ideas clearly.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7717,2536,'magneticpentagon','','','','2015-01-08 12:00:00','2015-01-08 12:00:00','I gave this to my boyfriend for his birthday. He loved it!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7719,2536,'Daniel Starnes','','','','2015-07-14 12:00:00','2015-07-14 12:00:00','COMPLEX SUBJECT BY A GENIUS IN LAYMANS TERMS',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7720,2536,'happy joe','','','','2016-01-31 12:00:00','2016-01-31 12:00:00','I learned from the book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7721,2536,'Spike','','','','2016-05-13 12:00:00','2016-05-13 12:00:00','Super book, interesting reading.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7722,2536,'Josh','','','','2014-12-16 12:00:00','2014-12-16 12:00:00','Anything by Richard Feynman is great to own',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7723,2536,'Barry D. Gold','','','','2021-08-30 12:00:00','2021-08-30 12:00:00','Reading this book is a little bit like being at a Feynman lecture(*). It holds your attention, and everything seems to follow logically, but when you get to the end of the chapter you\'re left feeling a little bit disoriented. \"Wait, did that really make sense all the way through?\"<br><br>Basically, if you\'re a physics dilettante like me, you\'re going to have to read each chapter twice.<br><br>(*) I was privileged to attend two, one in my Freshman year, one in my Sophomore year.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7724,2536,'Alaturka','','','','2004-07-28 12:00:00','2004-07-28 12:00:00','Though the title implies it, this book is not really a sequal to the Six Easy Pieces. They can be read seperately. It treats some of the concepts centered around Special and General Relativity that revolutionized physics near the turn of the century. It would be impossible to find another book that can dive so deeply into topics such as symmetry and space-time, while bypassing formalism and exposing the fundemental ideas and signficance in every-day terms. The delivery is in lecture form, and while that makes it more authentic and real, the fact that this is a book and the reader is not really in a lecture, makes it a little awkward. One often gets the feeling that one had to be there to get the full benefit. There is little attempt at explaining the historical context and other niceties and focus is solely on the concepts themselves. One needs to have at least college level math background to follow the derivations. Feynman has done a phenomenal job in reducing such complex concepts into digestable pieces of conversation. There is no abstraction, everything is quantified. I especially enjoyed the chapter Curved Space, as I had never seen it treated so intimately. The self consistency of all these topics and how they are interrelated is elegantly presented.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7725,2536,'Kindle Customer','','','','2018-09-30 12:00:00','2018-09-30 12:00:00','I\'ve often wanted to understand how mathematics has been used to define laws that are proven, or not, by experiment.<br><br>I can understand how experiment can find the mass of an electron, for example. But how can a series of equations predict the mass?<br><br>This book provides just such insight without a lot of heavy mathematics. You should brush up on basics of motion and the calculus of derivatives to make the most of the book, but it\'s really not required.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7727,2536,'Wayne Lathrop','','','','2020-07-23 12:00:00','2020-07-23 12:00:00','I wish I could have had access to Dr Feynman when I was a young engineering student. Too late now having been retired for 26years but still enjoy reading books like this. Bring on more!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7728,2536,'Phyllis','','','','2016-06-27 12:00:00','2016-06-27 12:00:00','If you took math at a good science or engineering university, you\'ll be able to follow the math here (maybe not actually do it....but be able to follow it).  If not, I think you\'ll still learn a lot.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7729,2536,'Claude','','','','2017-08-01 12:00:00','2017-08-01 12:00:00','Book arrived in the time Stated and was also as stated ,it was used. The book was used but I don`t think it was read by many People.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7730,2536,'Harry P','','','','2019-09-16 12:00:00','2019-09-16 12:00:00','Too difficult for non scientists',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7731,2536,'PJF','','','','2017-11-13 12:00:00','2017-11-13 12:00:00','but the formulas are reproduced too small to be easily legible on my Oasis',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7732,2536,'Jeanne','','','','2019-03-08 12:00:00','2019-03-08 12:00:00','Son wanted.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7733,2536,'Norman H. Gaffin','','','','2017-08-08 12:00:00','2017-08-08 12:00:00','the contents satisfies my interests',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7734,2536,'James L Frazier','','','','2017-10-12 12:00:00','2017-10-12 12:00:00','excellent text',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7735,2536,'MJL','','','','2014-12-07 12:00:00','2014-12-07 12:00:00','Great book.  Only problem is that font for equations show up very small on Kindle version',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7736,2536,'dbailey','','','','2016-12-11 12:00:00','2016-12-11 12:00:00','satisfactory',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7737,2536,'J. Konkel','','','','2009-10-10 12:00:00','2009-10-10 12:00:00','I think this book would be a wonderful pick for anyone who loves physics and understands the basic concepts of physics but i suggest you read&nbsp;\n  \nSix Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    &nbsp;first if you haven\'t already.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7738,2536,'Mark DuPlessis','','','','2015-06-12 12:00:00','2015-06-12 12:00:00','Good stuff for the \"amateur\".',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7739,2536,'SEGMD','','','','2015-08-06 12:00:00','2015-08-06 12:00:00','WRITTEN BY A GENIUS',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7740,2536,'Holly Irvan','','','','2013-08-13 12:00:00','2013-08-13 12:00:00','Although I struggled with some of the math, this was still an interesting read. Feynman articulated his examples well and provided sufficient details to understand the concepts even if you are not capable (or willing) to work out the calculations.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7741,2536,'Nicole ','','','','2014-08-04 12:00:00','2014-08-04 12:00:00','Received in great condition.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7742,2536,'Epimachus','','','','2009-01-04 12:00:00','2009-01-04 12:00:00','This book is more difficult than&nbsp;\n  \nSix Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    , but it is still understandable without too much experience with calculus. Feynman\'s lectures, as always, are very solid and interesting. This book is definitely worth the small price.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7743,2536,'Michael Bayne','','','','2002-02-11 12:00:00','2002-02-11 12:00:00','How refreshing it was to read Feynman\'s explanation of relativity after wading through Einstein\'s dry coverage of the same material. Perhaps the drama didn\'t come through in the translation from the German, but Feynman\'s account was so much more gripping. Moreover, Feynman went far beyond simply explaining the special and general theories of relativity; he pieced them together into the larger fabric of physics and pointed out all sorts of interesting curiosities along the way. If you want a solid introduction to relativity and you have an understanding of basic physics, this is the place to get it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7744,2536,'lisa','','','','2002-03-18 12:00:00','2002-03-18 12:00:00','Though I\'m not very excellent in Physic,I can understand what he wants to say easily. In the prosses of reading this book, you may find interesting for he never tells you the answer but guids you to find it by yourself. It\'s just like an adventure. In addition, if you are not satisfied with what you had learned, you can learn Feynman how to explain a thing more clearly and easily to people.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7745,2536,'Mr. P. Harvey','','','','2013-07-23 12:00:00','2013-07-23 12:00:00','I first encountered this series of books, written by Richard P Feynman, in my local book retailer and I was surprised at their size. Despite the nature of their subject, they are barely a couple hundred pages in length. Usually scientific books are much thicker volumes. But when one realises these books were written from notes derived for student presentations by Feynman, then size doesn\'t really matter. I am more inclined to purchase a \'thin\' book than a \'thick\' book because apart from being cheaper to buy and easier to carry, it should be an easier book to read. Doubtless, size is a marketing ploy but it means these books are affordable to a great many more people.<br><br>The information these books contain, often illustrated by original drawings by the author, help to convey some quite complex theories. These theories maybe right or they maybe wrong but they serve to illustrate the thoughts of a \'genius\' whom many professionals believe rivalled Einstein in terms of his vision of how the universe works. Feynman was a controversial, colourful, some say eccentric theoretical physicist who cared little for convention and left an indelible mark in understanding science.<br><br>I purchased 3 books in this series and I purchased 3 more for a friend\'s birthday. Doubtless I will purchase other books in the same series when I have time to read them.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7746,2536,'Aldo Vesnaver','','','','2021-12-07 12:00:00','2021-12-07 12:00:00','Ottimo libro per chi abbia gia\' fatto la laurea breve in fisica. Apre orizzonti affascinanti sulla Relativita\' e sulla comprensione piu\' profondo di Spazio e Tempo. Purtroppo le (relativamente poche) formule sono quasi illeggibili, e questo e\' un problema grave, che riduce moltissimo la qualita\' di questo PRODOTTO Kindle. Il libro in se\', invece, e\' fantastico!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7747,2536,'Dave C','','','','2011-01-10 12:00:00','2011-01-10 12:00:00','I had heard much about Richard Feynman\'s legendary teaching ability. The introduction, and \"special preface\" in this book fuel the hype. Feynman\'s own preface is humble and folksy. The anticipation builds.  Then the physics begins...<br><br>I was disappointed. Maybe Feynman was groundbreaking in the 1960s, but his style and analogies are now widely copied and he is no longer original. The second problem is that these are not normal books, but lectures presented by Feynman (orally, with time constraints) in the 1960s, that have been posthumously published in book format.<br><br>This is not a bad introduction to Relativity and quantum physics, but it is not the best account that I have ever read. Were it not for the hype, I might have had a more favourable impression, although, without the hype, it\'s unlikely that I would have chosen a 40 year old introduction to Relativity.<br><br>If you want to learn about Relativity, then you will need to read a few different accounts anyway. No reason why this shouldn\'t be one of the first.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7748,2536,'crampy','','','','2020-12-31 12:00:00','2020-12-31 12:00:00','Bought as a present, was thrilled with this book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7749,2536,'Rod Jay','','','','2013-12-27 12:00:00','2013-12-27 12:00:00','It\'s interesting, but probably too technical for the average person. Since it is based on Richard Feynman\'s actual lectures, it will be more useful to those who are undergraduates in physics. However, if the math is above you, as it was for me, just skip those parts and assume the formulas support the implications and conclusions presented; it will still open your mind and help you gain a better understanding of what space-time really means.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7751,2536,'Alessandro','','','','2017-02-04 12:00:00','2017-02-04 12:00:00','ottimo libro. In effetti, not-so-easy pieces, perche\' per alcuni sviluppi della matematica di fondo fanno riferimento ad un altro libro di Feyman (The Feynman Lectures on Physics), libro che non ho.<br>Per contro, questo e\' un libro divulgativo e quindi non e\' un trattato con lunghe e difficili formule.<br>Di piacevolissima lettura. La capacita\' di spiegare con semplicita\' cose difficili e\' una delle caratteristiche per cui Feyman e\' famoso.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7752,2536,'John  Tunstall','','','','2015-04-07 12:00:00','2015-04-07 12:00:00','I enjoyed reading Professor Feynman\'s book. I was particularly interested in the chapter on the curvature of space-time. I am sorry he is no longer with us. John Tunstall Manchester UK.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7753,2502,'math_guy51','','','','2018-10-15 12:00:00','2018-10-15 12:00:00','If you want to stick to a single textbook ..this is the one to get !<br>It is quite up to date, extremely readable and didactic since it includes key solved exercises which a newcomer to the field needs to go over  (seasoned String Theorists probably would skip over many of them ) .<br>If you are in need of a basic (yet quite comprehensive) S.T. Intro turn to the (affordable) McMahon DeMystified USER FRIENDLY book.<br>I think the  \"In a nutshell\" and \"Polchinski\" books are very good too,  but they expect the reader to work out way too many calcs on their own and they  gloss over concepts and calcs that are only obvious to readers with a fair amount of String Theory background. Skipping those calcs can easily mislead the reader into thinking they understand the material ...<br>It\'s a Mystery why String theory has taken so long to evolve (about 50 years) and is still encountering serious difficulties  (the latest one being the humongous number of available Vacuum states - \"Landscape problem\")<br>Given the large amount and the high caliber of String Theorists (including Nobel Prize winners) it would be reasonable to expect for the Physics community to delineate the capabilites, limitations and use of the theory ...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7754,2502,'Marc A. Meiaser','','','','2008-02-09 12:00:00','2008-02-09 12:00:00','I have read \"Theory of Everything\" and understood  the technical elements of physics by Brian Greene.  Becker2,Schwarz are math professors first.  Reader beware.  You must have a desire for string knowledge or math interests.  Yes the book is great.  Beware amatures. I have also resad \"String Theory\" by Joseph Polchinski.  I understood more material but it is almost 10 years old.  Big difference. I recommend reading such a up-dateded version of brane data. So much more too.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(8227,3120,'WooCommerce','woocommerce@bookiino.com','','','2023-10-15 09:11:44','2023-10-15 09:11:44','Order status changed from Pending payment to Completed.',0,'1','WooCommerce','order_note',0,0),(7757,2502,'Dean Welch','','','','2007-03-11 12:00:00','2007-03-11 12:00:00','I think this is a great book that provides not only a great introduction to string theory (there is no assumed prior knowledge of string theory), but also provides coverage of many more advanced topics as well. I think it\'s likely that the vast majority of students specializing in string theory will want to read it at some point in their studies.<br><br>The coverage of topics in the first few chapters is in some ways fairly standard. The first two chapters consists of a high level overview of string theory, bosonic string, the Nambu-Goto action the Polyakov action, the Virasoro algebra, the critical dimension, light code gauge and the spectra of open/closed strings. After this there is a chapter on conformal field theory, naturally emphasizing the parts relevant to string theory (including a bit of string field theory). This is followed by discussions of worldsheet supersymmetry, spacetime supersymmetry, anomalies, T-duality and heterotic strings. The writing is very clear and considering the nature of the material, fairly straight forward. There are two things that I considered exceptional strengths. One is that the discussions incorporate D-branes, M-theory and the (unexpected) symmetries of string theory early on. The other is that there are numerous worked examples, as there are throughout the book.<br><br>At a very high level the rest of the book contains more extensive discussions of M-theory, compactification (including a substantial amount besides the standard approach of the compact dimensions being a Calabi-Yau space), mirror symmetry, S-duality, possible cosmological consequences of string theory, black holes and other solutions with horizons, matrix theory, AdS/CFT correspondence (a proposed equivalence between closed string solutions on the product of a sphere and anti-deSitter space and Yang-Mills theories) and the holographic principle (or as some would say conjecture).<br><br>The things I appreciated the most about this material was that is was a very interesting mix of topics. The discussion of black holes and cosmology was fairly extensive (for cosmology it was the most extensive I\'ve seen in a text book). As was the coverage of the AdS/CFT correspondence. There were also some topics that I don\'t recall seeing in other string theory books, such as warped geometries in compactification and S-branes (these are like D-branes but they satisfy Dirichlet boundary conditions in timelike directions).<br><br>Needless to say it\'s a fairly advanced book. There is some coverage of things like complex spaces, topology, general relativity and cosmology. However this material is more along the lines of a review, not something intended to teach from first principles (some of the other string theory books cover this kind material in more detail).<br><br>All-in-all I believe this book not only provides a great introduction, it also provides an excellent treatment of some of the more advanced topics in string theory.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7758,2502,'Mark Arjomandi','','','','2008-11-01 12:00:00','2008-11-01 12:00:00','I approach the subject from a mathematical direction having been greatly interested in the fact that historically speaking, string theory has been evolving backwards and still searching for its appropriate geometry. While only a few of the prominant names in the area have undertaken the task of writing a comprehensive manuscript on string theory, the past couple of decades has seen the publication of texts by Polchinski, Kaku, Zwiebach, and several others, all with their own merits, scope, and style of presentation. The present title as far as I know is the first on the topic chiefly written by female physicists (who are inevitably better at explaining things!) and eventhough as Lee Carlson mentions in his review here, there is room for improvements in a few places, Becker &amp; Schwarz is one of the best current options for teaching a first-year graduate course and for reference. As the writers have noted in the Preface, the book assumes a background in quantum field theory, general relativity, and also familiarity with the mathematical concepts and constructs in group theory, differential geometry, and topology. The discussion starts out with the basics on perturbative string theory, moving into conformal field theory, supersymmetry, dualities, and finally to the more modern developments such as D-branes and M-theory. My favorite chapters are the ones on String Geometry (chapter 9) and Flux Compactifications (chapter 10), the latter being one of the more recent developments in the area not discussed in the earlier books. In a departure from the 1980\'s and 1990\'s trends, string theory has become progressively more accessible to nonspecialists (such as engineers), therefore the 120-or-so worked-out problems and the other 200 homework exercises which are included provide a good setting for those not taking an official course, to try their hand on solving various problems for better understanding the subject. In summary, Becker &amp; Schwarz (and its possible future editions) is destined to be one of the main treatises of string theory in the coming years.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7759,2502,'Mark Weitzman','','','','2014-12-13 12:00:00','2014-12-13 12:00:00','Somehow I managed to get a new hardcover edition real cheap like $30.  The material is fairly advanced.  But this is the heaviest (literally) and most well constructed physics book I have ever owned.  If you ever need a murder weapon this is the book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7760,2502,'The Oracle','','','','2007-01-29 12:00:00','2007-01-29 12:00:00','This is a fabulous excursion into a world inhabited by all sorts of mythical creatures: Calabi-Yau 3-folds, D-branes, orbifolds, ten and eleven-dimensional backgrounds, supersymmetric partners, covariant fermionic vertex operators and many others that only the wildest imaginations can conceive of. The wizards and magicians who have conjured these beasts have also cast a powerful spell on their easily-beguiled followers who see streets of gold and emerald trees as they walk through the morass of E8*E8 gauge fields, compactifications and dualities. This tome will be a welcome addition to your bookshelf right between Harry Potter and Alice in Wonderland. I gladly recommend each of you to take a brief stroll into this enchanted land to be followed by the volumes of Landau and Lifchitz, so that you will be able to find your way back to reality again. Some have called strings \"a theory of anything\". Indeed, it is a wonderful place where you can make all your wishes come true. But do not stay too long in the kingdom of string theory lest you end up like so many others who are lost, searching endlessly for the legendary realms of M-theory or wandering aimlessly in the infinite labyrinth of the Landscape, wasting the remaining years of their life on naught but a fable.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7761,2502,'A. Morrow','','','','2014-07-06 12:00:00','2014-07-06 12:00:00','Great book, had in it exactly the information I was looking for.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7762,2502,'Will S.','','','','2018-04-17 12:00:00','2018-04-17 12:00:00','Ich habe im Studium Stringtheorie gehört und schreibe gerade meine Masterarbeit in dem Bereich. Bisher hatte ich nur Polchinski und Zwiebach und da war das Buch hier eine kleine Offenbarung. Nicht falsch verstehen: Polchinski ist schon gut und es steht viel drin, aber das Buch von Becker, Becker und Schwarz ist nicht nur klarer und verständlicher geschrieben geschrieben (hätte ich z.B. die Kapitel über \"moduli spaces\" von Calabi-Yaus früher gelesen, hätte ich mir viel Zeit gespart) sondern im Gegensatz zu Polchinski werden auch \"moderne\" Themen wie flux compactification behandelt u.Ä.<br><br>- Sehr umfassend, vom bosonischen String über Superstrings und M-Theporie bis zu AdS/CFT<br>- Das Layout ist gut - sehr übersichtlich<br>- Viele Übungsaufgaben mit(!) Lösungen',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7763,2502,'Seeker of Elegance ','','','','2007-03-21 12:00:00','2007-03-21 12:00:00','I have  so far found this new string theory book comprehensible and clear.With a knowlege of quantum mechanics , general relativity and  some  standard undergraduate mathematics especially variational principles, group theory,topology etc.. this book looks  like  it might be the the  way into strings for thousands of  students like myself who like myself have wanted to get an actual understanding of the flavour of this highly exciting and  controvertial theoretical framework. For  self  study I think its fabulous  as  there  are  many fully worked  solution.<br><br>I think for a mathematician  or a phyics graduate this is  a better start point than Zweibach.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7764,2502,'bon appetit','','','','2021-11-13 12:00:00','2021-11-13 12:00:00','Elegantly written. This book will remain as the masterpiece in this field!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7765,2502,'Ken Lewis','','','','2010-12-29 12:00:00','2010-12-29 12:00:00','This book was bought to bring me up to date on the latest ideas and concepts that were not available when I was at university.  Once I am back up to speed it will be put into my library for future reference.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7766,2502,'Dr. J. O. Salkeld','','','','2014-09-11 12:00:00','2014-09-11 12:00:00','It is a very good read so far. I have not finished yet but it is understandable and very interesting',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7767,2502,'Juan Arturo Oses Archaga','','','','2015-11-04 12:00:00','2015-11-04 12:00:00','Contenido muy completo complementado con problemas resueltos.<br>Lo creo muy recomendable para físicos teóricos que quieran dominar una teoría de gran actualidad para la Física de Partículas.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7768,2502,'physics','','','','2007-07-14 12:00:00','2007-07-14 12:00:00','string theoryには有名な本がありますが、この本は他の本の内容と異なる事柄が多く扱われているので、最近の事まで素早く基本的な事を身につけることができると思います。ポルチンスキーを持っている方にも、flux compactificationやblack hole attractorの説明は易しく書かれているので役立つと思います。当然、この教科書はIntroductionなので、完璧に色んな事が説明されていませんが、初心者にはちょうどいい内容に感じました。ポルチンスキーより易しいと思います。<br><br>この教科書の前半は大体色んな本と同じような、弦の量子化などを扱ってます。グリーン・シュワルツ形式の議論が結構されているのがいいです。違いが出てくるのは、後半のCalabi-Yauの幾何の議論をするところからです。ポルチンスキーでさらっと終わっていることも、式を使って説明しているのがありがたいです。moduliの変形やspecial geometryに関しても易しい説明があります(深くはないかもしれませんが)。昔のbeccker達の仕事のCY 4-foldを用いたM-theoryのflux compactification やtype IIB flux compactificationも解説してあります。最近、becker達がやっているnon-kahlerに関してもサラッと触れています。flux compactificationが詳しい反面、gauge/string対応の説明は若干サラッとしすぎているような気がしました。<br><br>全体に目を通した感想では、前半は標準的、後半はどちらかというとstring自体より、超重力を使う議論が詳しくなされていると思います。CFTや散乱振幅の説明はポルチンスキーのほうが詳しいです。flux compactificationに興味がある方にはきっと役立つと思います(具体的な導出過程が提示してある)。<br><br>何に興味があるかで、この本の価値は分かれると思いますが、自分は満足しています。<br>計算が具体的にできるようになる、実用的な本に感じました。忙しくて色んな事を知らなければならない人にとっては、ガイドラインとしても使えそうです。',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7769,2502,'Dr. Lee D. Carlson','','','','2007-04-22 12:00:00','2007-04-22 12:00:00','String theory has been criticized since it was first invented but not to the degree that it has now, this criticism mostly focusing on its failure to connect with observation. The criticism has increased dramatically in recent years however, and some of this has been too vituperative to be useful to those curious about string theory as a viable physical theory. But criticism, however harsh, can be healthy, since it motivates the proponents of a theory to more carefully elucidate its foundations and content. This is usually not the case when a theory is popular, as researchers are in a competitive spirit and are hesitant to share the knowledge to possible competitors. At this stage in the game however, string theorists it seems are now on the defensive, and have thus taken the time to discuss in-depth what this reviewer still believes is the most complex and beautiful theory ever constructed in mathematical physics. String theory still has a long way to go before it gains status as being a physical theory, but hopefully by the end of the next few decades one will see the appearance of charts, graphs, and numerical calculations in books on string theory, much like one finds in the most successful of all physical theories to date: relativistic quantum field theory.<br><br>Some highlights in the book that are particularly insightful include:<br><br>1. The observation that Dirichlet boundary conditions (for the open string) break Poincare invariance, but that this leads to the introduction of Dp-branes as positions of the endpoints of the open string. Poincare invariance is recovered as long as Dp-brane is space filling, i.e. has a dimension one less than the background spacetime.<br><br>2. The view that the BRST quantization of the path integral is really a conformal field theory. This is interesting in that BRST analysis is typically thought of as a procedure for quantizing constrained systems (gauge theories being predominant examples).<br><br>3. The `Myers effect\'. Sometimes referred to as the `D-brane dielectric effect\', it is part of an attempt to understand the physics of non-Abelian D-branes for strong fields. One of the challenges in this understanding involves the validity of the Dirac-Born-Infeld action in these kinds of circumstances, which as the authors remark is designed for situations where the background fields and world-volume gauge fields do not vary appreciably over the distances on the order of the string scale.<br><br>4. The origin of the (classical) Virasoro algebra as the freedom of choice of gauge in the reparametrization symmetry. And along these same lines, the quantization of the Virasoro algebra is defined to the normal ordering of the Virasoro generators, and their commutators give an expression consisting of the ordinary classical term plus a \"quantum\" correction, the famous central extension. Thus the quantum Virasoro algebra can be viewed as a \"quantum deformation\" of the classical Virasoro algebra, with the central parameter as being the deformation parameter. This philosophy of deformation has found generalization in what are now called `quantum groups\' (even though strictly speaking they are much more complicated objects than ordinary groups).<br><br>5. The connection of the dilaton to the Euler characteristic.<br><br>6. The role of the GSO projection in insuring consistency in the state spectrum.<br><br>7. The use of (vector bundle) K-theory to classify D-brane charges. This use arises when it is realized that the conserved R-R charges cannot be identified with cohomology classes of gauge field configurations. Instead, the D-branes are classified by K-theory classes.<br><br>8. The discussion on `primitive cohomology\' and its relation to de Rham cohomology and Hodge theory.<br><br>9. The role of the Born-Infeld structure in ensuring Lorentz invariance of the T-dual description. The Born-Infeld action was once viewed as a mere historical curiosity, namely as a nonlinear generalization of the Maxwell theory, with no experimental backing. That it finds such a natural place in string theory is very interesting (but still of course lacking in experimental support).<br><br>10. The derivation of a lower bound for Newton\'s constant from heterotic M-theory, which is close to the observed value.<br><br>11. The argument, beautifully elucidated in this book, that type IIA supergravity may be obtained from 11-dimensional supergravity by dimensional reduction.<br><br>12. The discussion on warped space-times and the gauge hierarchy. The authors cleverly motivate this subject by asking why Newtonian gravity follows an inverse-square law rather than an inverse-cube law.<br><br>13. An entire chapter is devoted to \"stringy\" geometry, which is a fascinating subject given that it touches so many areas of modern mathematics.<br><br>14. The discussion of the `hidden sector\' and its conjectured relation to dark matter and supersymmetry breaking.<br><br>15. The author\'s treatment of the AdS/CFT conjecture is superb and is by far the most interesting part of the book. The dualities shown to exists between gauge theory and string theory are a possible route to a full understanding of nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics, which to this date has defied resolution.<br><br>Some major omissions or discussions that need more elaboration include:<br><br>1. The difficulties that are actually involved in quantizing the Nambu-Goto action. The authors remark that this is due to the presence of the square root, but it would have been interesting if they would have indicated just where the trouble rises explicitly when a quantization procedure is attempted with the Nambu-Goto action. In ordinary quantum field theory, the presence of the square root is interpreted as a \"nonlocal\" problem, but even there this issue is not usually dealt with in a manner that is very transparent.<br><br>2. A more detailed treatment of string field theory for those readers who want to compare it to what is done in second quantization in ordinary quantum field theory.<br><br>3. The role of the Beltrami differentials in the attaining of a measure for moduli space that is invariant under reparametrizations of the moduli space.<br><br>4. No in-depth discussion of characteristic classes over and above the algebra involved in their manipulation (i.e. the wedge products). An understanding of characteristic classes is crucial to understanding superstring and brane theory, but the pages of this book mislead the unsuspecting reader that there is nothing to characteristic classes except algebraic manipulation of the differential forms. But characteristic classes have a deep geometrical meaning, and obtaining insight into this meaning has been proven to be difficult for students of string theory. This book does not provide any of this insight, nor do any of the other books currently in print on string theory.<br><br>5. Is supersymmetry absolutely necessary for the incorporation of fermions into string theory? The authors seem to argue that it is, but an explicit proof is lacking.<br><br>6. The proof that `threshold bound states\' are stable is omitted, disappointing the more mathematically sophisticated reader. As the authors remark, the proof involves a special type of index theory involving non-Fredholm operators, and where one must deal with a continuous spectrum. The usual index theory breaks down since one is only dealing with elliptic operators, and contributions to the index from bosons and fermions do not necessarily have to be integers.<br><br>7. The authors should have included more discussion on mirror symmetry, beautiful subject that it is.<br><br>8. Dp-branes are asserted to be useful in incorporating non-Abelian gauge symmetries in string theory, in that they appear \"naturally\" as confined to world volumes of multiply-coincident Dp-branes. But is this the best way to introduce these symmetries? Is there a method, other than this one and `compactification\', that is just as \"natural\" and does not have the contrived element that the introduction of Dp-branes sometimes has?<br><br>9. The authors need to elaborate in more detail on the definition of \"stable\" and \"unstable\" D-brane.<br><br>10. The omitting of the proof that string theories are ultraviolet finite theories of quantum gravity. This is by far the most serious omission in the book. This reviewer does not know of a reference that proves this assertion, and many in the physics community have pointed to this omission as being a sign that the string theory research community has been misled by false assertions of proof.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7770,2502,'K. Yost','','','','2011-12-28 12:00:00','2011-12-28 12:00:00','I definitely fell into an odd class of people who wanted to educate myself about string theory, yet I am not and will never be an academic physicist.  What I needed was a text that introduced string theory and its mathematical underpinnings in a rigorous way, but one that was geared more for well informed, mathematically inclined amateurs, than for graduate students.<br><br>This book fit the bill very nicely.  It is not a \"popular\" account of the field for interested non-science majors, but it is doubtlessly a good text for an undergraduate level course in string theory for physics majors.  If you prefer to avoid calculus, linear algebra, geometry, and math in general, this book is not for you.  For that matter, if you don\'t have a reasonable grasp of quantum field theory and relativity, this book is not for you.<br><br>The great strength of this work, for me, was the clear and concise explanations of the material.  Although I do own both Barton Zwiebach\'s, \"\n  \nA First Course in String Theory\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \" and Elias Kiritsis\'s, \"\n  \nString Theory in a Nutshell\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \" only very rarely did I feel the need to consult either of those to clarify the points made by the authors in this book.<br><br>The one niggling criticism I have is that I would have preferred there be more exercises and problems throughout the book. At least for my purposes, being engaged in self-study, struggling through exercises is key to cementing the concepts in my mind. That was where I was very glad to have \"String Theory in a Nutshell,\" as it contains close to 500 exercises, whereas this book has around 300, divided between \'exercises\' (for which solutions are provided) and the more numerous \'problems\' (for which they are not).<br><br>I a bit feel stingy giving this text 4-stars simply because I\'d have preferred there be more exercises, but giving it 4.5 stars is not an option.  Suffice it to say that I could have just as easily rounded up to five stars.<br><br>There are a number of topics omitted by the authors that have come up in subsequent study, but it shouldn\'t be shocking that a 700-page treatment of a fast moving field like string theory would fail to be entirely comprehensive.  Those unaddressed topics (that I presently know of) are treated in more advanced texts, and thus far I don\'t believe that the quality or usefulness of this book suffers for any of the omissions.<br><br>If I could only recommend one of the three introductory texts on string theory that I\'ve read, I would generally select this one.  I found the discussions far more clear in this book than I did in Kiritsis\'s treatment of the same topics, and both books are more mathematically rigorous than Zwiebach\'s \"A First Course in String Theory.\"<br><br>Armed with what I\'ve learned from the authors, I am now in a position where I can turn to graduate level texts without succumbing to frustration at my own ignorance. \"String Theory and M-Theory\" provided me with the solid foundation I was hoping for; one on which I can easily build.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7771,2502,'Nonya','','','','2021-02-20 12:00:00','2021-02-20 12:00:00','Admittedly im only 2 chapters in but its not as good a srednicki. Also I don\'t like how more than half the material is presented through stand alone exercises rather than a more natural speech sort of flow....you know, like srednicki.<br><br>Maybe this is the result of having 3 authors, idk. It reads like a paper rather than a textbook.<br><br>It is the only serious string theory textbook I know of though so thank you BB&amp;S for that.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7772,2502,'David McMahon','','','','2008-02-13 12:00:00','2008-02-13 12:00:00','This is a nice book to have if you\'re trying to learn string theory. The presentation is rather straightforward. What\'s really nice is each chapter has several solved examples. But best of all the writing is clear and its relatively (no pun intended) easy to follow the book to the end. In my opinion, this book is accessible to anyone with a basic physics (or even math) undergraduate education. Zweibach is a great book for sure, but by design it cuts corners in an attempt to make the subject accessible to undergraduates. I don\'t think thats really necessary (except maybe avoiding path integrals). What I like about this book is it does not cut corners. Topics that are avoided in Zweibach are definitely discussed in here.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7773,2502,'User','','','','2016-03-28 12:00:00','2016-03-28 12:00:00','The instructor of the 1-semester strings grad course I am taking uses this as the textbook. This book is a good company to a course for its conciseness and fast track to superstrings. However, I don\'t recommend reading it for self-learning, as it skips a lot of details and subtleties. For self-learning purpose I recommend Polchinski Book 1 and then return to the chapter of this book on superstrings and beyond.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7774,2502,'edward q.','','','','2014-02-24 12:00:00','2014-02-24 12:00:00','Good hard-cover book. Very densive content, requires complementary books like Polchinski and Barton. However it contains<br>almost all the topics in strings theory.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7775,2502,'Cybertronian','','','','2007-03-09 12:00:00','2007-03-09 12:00:00','This new textbook on string theory might be considered a modern pimped up version of Zwiebach\'s introductory course. The book is - as an introduction - better than the 2-volume set by Schwarz (Green, Schwarz, Witten), which is partly outdated, and on the same footing as Polchinski\'s version, but certainly not as thorough and elaborate. There is some overlap between all books (e.g. the CFT bits from Polchinski are quite similar to those in this new text, the introduction of the bosonic string via the relativistic point particle looks like the ones by Polchinski and Zwiebach, but Becker &amp; Schwarz immediately generalise the concept to p-branes, SCFTs are discussed in a similar manner as in Polchinski, and so on), but there are additional features that really add to the value of the book: all exercises within the text have solutions directly under them, so one can either try to solve them or read them through, and some parts are explained more clearly. The concepts of \"(gauge) symmetries\" are discussed slightly better than by Polchsinki or GSW, but for those who want mathematical proofs instead of hand-waving arguments, and more background material on supersymmetry, I can only say that I have found no books on string theory that really do that. Both are subjects of study on their own and would go \"beyond the scope\" of these books... Nevertheless, a very good introduction and most of all: up to date!<br><br>For mid-undergraduates, I think, the perfect sequence for string theory would be (provided one acquires knowledge of QFT and Lie algebras for the more advanced texts):<br><br>Zwiebach&gt;Becker/Schwarz&gt;Polchinski (supplemented by GSW\'s first volume)<br><br>But if you want to learn string theory more quickly or if you don\'t have problems with the very basics, then leave out Zwiebach and go for this one immediately. For graduates, Polchinski should be the start, but one can take Backer/Schwarz always as a references and supplement on some topics (connection to black holes and gauge theories).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7776,2502,'Mobius','','','','2007-01-23 12:00:00','2007-01-23 12:00:00','This volume was authored by one of the most respected researchers in the field, as well as the Becker sisters.  It is beautifully illustrated, and is well timed for upcomming experimental tests of superstring theory at the Large Hadron collider.  I did not give if five starts because it only devoted four pages to the Landscape, which professor Susskind, the father of string theory, has declared the most significant advance in physics in the past century.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7777,2502,'Harold E.','','','','2012-05-23 12:00:00','2012-05-23 12:00:00','Ce livre m\'a laissé une impression très mitigée, d\'où une bonne note malgré de forts défauts : d\'un côté, ce livre est assez récent et aborde donc des aspects modernes de la théorie des cordes, tout en adoptant une démarche assez générale (par exemple l\'action de la particule relativiste est d\'emblée généralisée aux p-branes). Il propose en outre un certain nombre d\'exercices corrigés, plus d\'autres exercices plus ambitieux (et non corrigés). Certaines remarques sont très intéressantes et apportent un éclairage intéressant.<br>Hélas, nous en arrivons aux défauts : le livre est très mal organisé, et c\'est souvent que la lecture d\'un passage me donnait l\'impression d\'avoir raté une section précédente ; mais en retournant en arrière, nulle mention de ce qui manque. Il est donc très fréquent dans ce livre que certains concepts (pourtant pas simples) d\'être utilisés dans être définis (ou à peine). Un exemple typique est la discussion des anomalies du chapitre 5, qui fait appel aux cordes de type I (définies aux chapitre 6) et hétérotiques (chapitre 7) et à la supergravité. De même, les auteurs utilisent les plans orientifold (chap. 6) sans les définir plus que vaguement. De plus, le livre n\'a pas de ligne d\'organisation très claire : les auteurs sautent d\'un sujet à un autre, mais sans toujours motiver leur choix, et cela déroute d\'autant plus.<br>La partie sur la CFT est un peu plus facile à lire que celle de Polchinski, mais restera difficile sans une connaissance préalable (par exemple avec les notes sur le sujet de Ginsparg, ou bien celles de théorie des cordes de Tong).<br>Ainsi, ce livre peut être très bien pour avoir une idée globale du sujet et plus \"profonde\" qu\'avec le livre de Zwiebach, et il peut être utilisé rapidement dans cet objectif. Par contre il ne sera possible d\'en retirer le meilleur bénéfice qu\'après avoir avancé d\'autres livres/notes de cours. Je précise aussi qu\'il reste plus facile d\'abord que le Polchinski.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7778,2502,'Sonnenhalde','','','','2010-08-15 12:00:00','2010-08-15 12:00:00','Wer wirklich etwas anspruchsvolles lesen möchte, der ist mit dem Buch gut bedient. Ich lese es immer nur seitenweise, bei Ruhe und voller Konzentration und brache dann Zeit um das gelesene gedanklich zu ordnen, und das liegt nicht an der englischen Sprache sondern am Thema. Jemandem ohne Vorkenntnisse in theoretischer Physik kann man das Buch nicht empfehlen. Wenn man sich aber darauf einlässt, bietet es spannende Einblicke in die heutigen Theorien.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7779,2522,'B Mar','','','','2022-08-03 12:00:00','2022-08-03 12:00:00','This book does a great job of laying out the absolute basics and then building upon them through each chapter. Its easy to understand and a great resource for a beginner learning about causal inference.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7780,2522,'Dylan','','','','2022-03-05 12:00:00','2022-03-05 12:00:00','Just finished my graduate causal inference class and NHK saved my life! From his YouTube channel to this book, NHK breaks down the most complex methods for you to understand with multiple examples.<br><br>The Mixtape was the book we used for the class, but when paired with The Effect, you can truly master the concepts.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7781,2522,'LMKIRVAN','','','','2022-02-27 12:00:00','2022-02-27 12:00:00','conversational in tone. intuitive explanation of methods with just enough rigor. very nice!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7782,2522,'Alix','','','','2022-01-17 12:00:00','2022-01-17 12:00:00','This book has been a pleasure to read. I learned a lot.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7783,2522,'John Nedson','','','','2022-01-11 12:00:00','2022-01-11 12:00:00','This is an excellent book!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7784,2522,'JBcustomer','','','','2022-02-21 12:00:00','2022-02-21 12:00:00','If you are a scientist who reads treatments of causal methods in technical sources, you will time and again come away with the question in your mind, \"What does this really mean for the practice of science?\" The highly readable and up-to-date treatment by Huntington-Klein addresses that higher-order question while providing a rich summary of the technical issues. Perhaps more important is that this treatment is balanced, considering the broad array of scientific situations and not just a detailed exposition on problems and narrow work arounds. I recommend this book over all others on the subject I have read (excluding subjects not considered in this general treatment).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7786,2522,'Scott Cunningham','','','','2022-01-17 12:00:00','2022-01-17 12:00:00','Nick Huntingon-Klein has performed a hat trick.  He has written a book introducing people targeting students, data scientists, academics, people in industry, and management without any deep familiarity with design based causal inference to design based causal inference that manages to be simultaneously a soft introduction and a tour de force that can take a person from zero to cruising altitude.  That is not easy to do to say the least.  Most people who perform this type of work have neither the time, inclination, desire or ability to communicate this material that manages to hit so many levels as Nick has done.  They don\'t know how to make something so accessible as causal inference except to lean heavily on the econometric theory which is dense, wrapped in opaque symbols and deep statistical theory.  And yet Nick, being both an excellent empirical microeconomist and an accomplished, innovative professor, was able to do it.  I think this book is the book that will help us begin figuring out how to create courses on causal inference for undergraduates all over campus, perhaps even high school itself, for it manages to cover all of design based causal inference (a subject which was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2021) using causal graphs, code, light hearted yet clear exposition.  No one else could have written this book except Nick.  It is a masterpiece and it is one that will be around for a long long time.  Get this book for your boss, your colleagues, the student struggling in your class.  Study it for your dissertation, for your masters thesis, for your honors thesis.  Use it to dream.  Use it to finally understand that one paper that you found provocative but couldn\'t quite understand.  Nick\'s book is like a plan lifting off from the runway, barely angled up, lifting up slightly higher and higher and higher until at one point we all look around and realize -- we are so high up that we cannot see the ground.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7787,2522,'M','','','','2022-01-17 12:00:00','2022-01-17 12:00:00','Finally... a book that covers good research design AND the key methods to answer causal questions AND nice code examples!<br><br>The author does an excellent job walking the reader through the research process in a practical and very accessible way. I couldn\'t put this book down!<br><br>I\'m an experienced quantitative researcher and will be recommending this to colleagues (and using as teaching resource!).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7788,2522,'Berlin','','','','2022-02-16 12:00:00','2022-02-16 12:00:00','Useful for any level of students in Economics, Statistics, Data science,etc.<br>You have recent causal inference explanation in a easy manger for reader.<br>This is the best introductory causal inference book to date in my point of view.<br>I prefer buy the book over the free website and I like it.<br>The white space in the book allow to take notes during reading.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7789,2522,'Thomas Richardson','','','','2022-04-24 12:00:00','2022-04-24 12:00:00','Easily the best written introduction to causal inference out there',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7791,2522,'Kindle Customer','','','','2022-01-17 12:00:00','2022-01-17 12:00:00','I am half-way through this book (will update this review once I complete it). So far I have been very impressed with Nick\'s writing style. New concepts are introduced in an incredibly accessible manner, it makes them feel intuitive and natural. A large part of this (I think) is because he avoids excessive jargon and heavy reliance on mathematical proofs without first explaining the concepts behind the formulae.<br><br>I have also been impressed with the sheer amount of humour packed into this textbook - it really helps to lighten what can typically be a heavy topic.<br><br>Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the world, Nick!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7792,2522,'Marco','','','','2022-01-23 12:00:00','2022-01-23 12:00:00','This book has mastered how to make a book about causal analysis entertaining to read for a wide audience. A one in a lifetime masterpiece!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7793,2522,'Felix','','','','2022-01-15 12:00:00','2022-01-15 12:00:00','Great, very accessible book. Extremy useful code examples. And, rare for a stats book: funny. 5/5',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7794,2522,'Bernard Surial','','','','2022-02-17 12:00:00','2022-02-17 12:00:00','Great book, accessible, very comprehensive and entertaining.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7797,2538,'Danny Boy','','','','2023-07-28 12:00:00','2023-07-28 12:00:00','Very pleased with this purchase. Five stars.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7798,2538,'Suvit Singhsachakul','','','','2007-01-03 12:00:00','2007-01-03 12:00:00','You emerge on the other side of this book intellectually on par with the most cutting edge physicists of today: Well, minus all the complex mathematical equations and technical jargon of course. However, from a conceptual platform, you are able to visualize the kind of ground breaking ideas that have driven quantum physics into a brave new world of our reality. The author has a gifted ability to simplify complex physical concepts with sensible and intuitive examples that meshes seamlessly with our notions of common sense; that too, without \"dumbing down\" the key complexities of the theories put forth. It is a testament to his great reputation indeed, for Brian Greene, the author, a prominent mover and shaker in the field of Superstring Theory, to be able to construct a conceptual world for the lay person without burdening the readers with complex formulas and mathematics.<br><br>The book commences on the exploration of Einstein\'s notion of relativity, followed by the foundations of quantum physics, with both these fields having occupied physicists for the better half of the 20th century. Greene goes on to elaborate the frictions, paradoxes and inconsistencies arising from  attempts of eminent scientists to reconcile these two extremely different scientific dogmas that both seem to define our reality. Enter String Theory, a revolutionary new discovery that turns physics as we know it on its head by not only merging general relativity and quantum physics into a single plausible framework, but also harboring new insights and implications on the nature of reality. These insights include a universe of 11 dimentsions, mathematical predictions for supersymmetry and the possibility of space-time ruptures, an area in which Greene has been most productive in, and for whose contributions he has been highly respected for. We see the 21st century as a kind of Renaissance for physics, as String Theory, with the ardent and novel outburst of myriad conceptual discoveries, has evolved into Super-String Theory and finally the M-Theory, perhaps the true \"Theory of Everything\" that has been the Holy Grail of Physics from the days of Einstein. However, the common thread running throughout the book is the idea of \"symmetry\", an overarching concept that accounts for the word \"Elegant\" in the title of this book.<br><br>Not only are the rhetoric superb and visual examples highly intuitive, the author\'s tone is brimming with excitement and passion for the subject matter, the kind of enthusiasm that seeps out onto the readers, making them want to take a journey with Greene as he explores the universe. Furthermore, the author gives full credit (and refernces) to all the key contributors of modern science from the more familiar names like Newton, Einstein, Bohr, and Hawking to the less prolific (at least to the lay person) but equally brilliant personalities like Kaluza, Klein, Calabi, Yau, Fermi, Bose and a host of other eminent scientists. Reading this book was like being invited to a soiree for dinner and conversation with all these scientific minds in one room. Furthermore, the author, although passionate, remains admirably objective in his postulations, acknowledging the weaknesses and flaws in such a dynamic new field, and establishing caveats for the readers before they move on from controversial topic to controversial topic.<br><br>This is a great book, one that takes the readers step by step on an adventure into inner space and outer space simultaneously. We gain a better understanding of \"what we are\" in the bigger picture although deeper questions like \"Who we are\" and \"Why we are here?\" remains up for grabs. However, like Greene endorses, the closer we come to discovering the nature of the universe, the more we are equipped and prepared to tackle these deeper questions with scientifically viable answers. Notice how I have refrained from going into too much detail on the content of the book itself; that would be tantamount to giving away \"spoilers\" for a gripping suspense novel or movie; And I know how we all hate that!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7799,2538,'BD','','','','2021-01-23 12:00:00','2021-01-23 12:00:00','This was a very interesting read. It gives a great explanation of string theory and quantum mechanics. I really enjoyed all of it. It also has some diagrams/illustrations to help convey certain ideas sprinkled throughout the book. The illustrations are not there for no reason. They genuinely helped me understand certain concepts. I really enjoy Brian Greene\'s writing style. I hope to buy and read more of his books in the future.<br><br>I\'ve always been naturally fascinated by learning physics (especially at the quantum scale), and this book is perfect for that. It definitely satisfied my hunger for knowledge. Although string theory is just a theory, it is very interesting to read about. I never studied physics in college, nor did I take any advanced physics classes in high school. My knowledge basically comes from books like this and some YouTube videos.<br><br>This book is just constant FUN.<br>10/10. I would recommend this to any person who enjoys physics and has a decent level of background knowledge. You should know beforehand what atoms are, protons, neutrons, electrons, maybe some basic knowledge of quarks, photons, etc. Know some of the elementary particles and forces and a little bit about what they are, where you can find them in the universe. The Internet is an excellent resource for learning about these.<br>Know the basic structure of atoms.<br>I dove into this book with basic knowledge on all of the points above, and I had a great time. Try looking up some videos and experiments on YouTube, especially the visualization of gravity. That was an interesting thing to see in an experiment.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7800,2538,'UltraMuffin','','','','2003-07-30 12:00:00','2003-07-30 12:00:00','Before I read this book, I didn\'t know the first thing about string theory, general relativity or quantum mechanics. I believe people like me were the author\'s target audience; that is, people who are profoundly interested in the mysterious physics of the universe, but lack the scientific or mathematical background to understand them in their raw form. This book certainly shouldn\'t be seen as anything other than an introduction for those of us outside the field of physics.<br><br>Each chapter in this book lays down the foundation for the next chapter. Greene manages to group together scattered discoveries from the past century or so according to their relevance to the topic at hand, and it feels very natural. Every complex concept is explained in somewhat technical detail and then followed up immediately by a clever (and occasionally humorous) analogy. The key points are always restated and rephrased to make absolutely sure the reader is on the same page with the author. This method really does wonders for nailing important concepts to your head, which turns out to be absolutely essential as the book progresses and new ideas are stacked atop the old.<br><br>This book, overall, is interesting. There are some extraordinarily intriguing chapters that will have your mind racing for at least a couple days, trying to piece together the chapter\'s implications, and then there are a couple dull chapters that almost feel like a chore to get through. However, the dull chapters, which seem to be flooded with basic mathematical and technical details, are necessary to understand the big picture. Greene only presents us with the details we need to understand, nothing more, and I honestly can\'t think of a way he could have made these dull chapters exciting.<br><br>If you are a curious physics newbie, or only know bits and pieces about the basic concepts of string theory, special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the big bang, or hidden dimensions, this book is certainly for you! If you are already knowledgeable in these subjects and seek the deepest technical and mathematical information about them, I\'m guessing you will not find what you are looking for in this book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7801,2538,'K.S.Ziegler','','','','2008-06-30 12:00:00','2008-06-30 12:00:00','It is interesting to consider that the subject matter for this book essentially concerns only the last one hundred years or so of human history, ever since the time of Einstein\'s work, and that by way of comparison it only goes back to the time of Isaac Newton. Prior to Newton\'s day, the physical laws of the universe were understood - with the notable exception of the Greeks - almost exclusively in terms of the superstitious and allegorical. Only very recently in human history has there occurred this intense kind of scientific study, which the author describes here. Of course, the actual work involves a mathematics that is quite complicated, but the author has done a good job in telling the story in layman\'s terms. A few of the analogies are probably not the best in the world, but I found the book to be excellent reading, especially about how string theory developed, and only really stumbled in chapter 10, the one on quantum geometry.<br><br>While relativity and quantum mechanics are notable for being counterintuitive, string theory is especially interesting in that it fills in the gaps  (it accounts for gravity in the way the other theories do not), and provides a more intuitive basis. It makes sense to think of the most basic element of the universe as a vibrating string, certainly much more so than as a point particle. I think of a vibrating string as being a nexus between energy and the most fundamental kind of matter. It makes more sense to think that energy comes before matter rather than matter before energy.<br><br>Although the author does not directly deal with the question, it seems that he posits that string theory is an explanation of a self-contained universe. In the instances in which the fabric of space is torn, he explains that string theory provides a way for space to be mended. If the universe contracts back to the time of the big bang, it will not go back to nothing but rather to a \"big crunch\". Even the multiple dimensions of the theory, which lead one to think of another universe, have the sense of being on this side of the known universe. The biggest question that I could see concerns how string theory explains black holes. Is information lost in a black hole? The author seems to be on the side of those who don\'t think so, but concedes that there is no way to know at this point.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7802,2538,'Mechanical Mike','','','','2023-03-13 12:00:00','2023-03-13 12:00:00','I really liked this approach to knitting with yarn and string. Usually knitting books are more instructional but this one took a real theoretical approach to the fundamentals of strings and the process of knitting. Thanks Brian Greene!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7803,2538,'Rama Rao','','','','2004-03-17 12:00:00','2004-03-17 12:00:00','This book offers an enjoyable ride through a lovely landscape of Superstring theory/M theory. The author is an active researcher and a popular writer in this field who is also known for his presentation on PBS\'s NOVA about quantum cosmology. Since the postulation of special theory of relativity, Einstein and subsequent physicists have struggled to explain the four natural forces of the most basic components of matter; the electromagnetic force; the strong and weak nuclear forces; and the gravitational force by one unified field theory (a.k.a., theory of everything: Superstring/M Theory). This theory must unify the forces of the cosmos, and forces of microcosm thereby explaining the creation of heaven and earth. The author covers significant amount of material in simple clearly written non-technical and non-mathematical form. The book is described in four parts; first two parts introduces theory of relativity and quantum mechanics and the unholy marriage of the two that results in the complexity of understanding the forces of the cosmos and subatomic forces. The latter two parts describes Superstring theory that evolves into more focused M theory to explain all physical forces of nature. This theory suffers from lack of experimental evidence, but rests solely on mathematical calculations.  Hence it was subjected to heavy criticism during early years of the theory by leading physicists. However it has emerged as a winner as the theory grew out of academic obscurity to leading contender in quantum cosmology. The book has interesting tales about the leaders of the field such as Ed Witten who is strongly favored as the true successor of Albert Einstein. The author\'s enthusiasm and excitement about his involvement in this field is evident abundantly, when he discovers that fabric of space tears and repairs itself. This book is lot more informative and enjoyable than Michio Kaku\'s Hyperspace (see my review of this book). At the end of the book, notes to each chapter, Glossary of scientific terms, and suggested books for further reading offers stepping stones to more enthusiastic readers for furthering their knowledge. The author has done an excellent job of writing this book, and I encourage you to buy it: But he could have considered writing a chapter on mathematical methodology and some basic approaches to calculations that probably would have made this book one of the top few in this field.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7804,2538,'Gene Rhea Tucker','','','','2023-01-04 12:00:00','2023-01-04 12:00:00','4.5 out of 5 stars.<br><br>A good, layperson\'s introduction to string theory by a prominent physicist.  The NOVA specials on P.B.S. are better, but go here for some more meat.  For someone like myself who is interested in physics but not scientifically or mathematically inclined, this is a good book on the subject.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7805,2538,'james heath','','','','2023-04-23 12:00:00','2023-04-23 12:00:00','a',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7806,2538,'Renato S. N. Costa','','','','2001-02-02 12:00:00','2001-02-02 12:00:00','In terms of explaining the latest advances of physics, Brian Greene\'s \"The Elegant Universe\" is irreproachable: easy to read, rigorous and as elegant as the model of Universe he describes so well. I hadn\'t studied physics since 1974 and the amount of knowledge reading his book allowed me to acquire with little effort was fabulous.<br>\"The Elegant Universe\" would certainly deserve a SIX STAR rate were it not for a fact that is neither his nor his book\'s fault.<br>When Greene takes for granted that reality as perceived by man is 3D, he also, unconsciously perhaps, ignores exactly the small but significant percentage of  human beings that, throughout the centuries, not to say millennia, have repeatedly reported just the opposite, that is, that reality is more than the 3D experience our material senses can perceive.<br>Such a materialistic and unquestionably biased approach, not questioning the strong reasons science once had to adopt it, is responsible today for theoretical physicists feeling themselves as lonely adventurers climbing nature\'s knowledge peak, having no one higher up to suggest the correct direction to take.<br>Experimental physicists are standing at a quite lower position in the peak climbing path than they could be today due to the limitations of material instrumentation available for probing nature\'s intimate reality. Assuming everything is material, they simply dwell in the same biased position  a Neanderthal man would be when faced with a computer running a sophisticated software. The Neanderthal man would be tempted to believe the software had been produced by the computer, the same way scientists are led to assume that the mind is produced by the brain. Such a biased belief deprives modern science from using the most sophisticated and powerful probing instrument ever available to man, which is man\'s own mind.<br>Mystics, prophets, mediums, channelers, no matter how one calls them, are just human beings whose mind has the capacity to travel in other dimensions. Despite their lack of scientific understanding, they are surely higher up on nature\'s knowledge peak climbing path than theoretical physicists are. No matter that they may not be solidly grounded on the rock of the peak, but rather floating somewhere around. The fact that cannot be ignored is that they are the only living beings physicists can count upon to guide their climbing quest for truth.<br>It is an absolute shame and an incredible loss for science that so few scientists perceive such an absurd sate of things.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7807,2538,'joegw','','','','2001-03-04 12:00:00','2001-03-04 12:00:00','Brian Greene\'s \"The Elegant Universe\" is the best book on a scientific subject I\'ve ever read.  The first five chapters, which deal with Space, Time, Special &amp; General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics, are incredibly clear and worth the price of the book alone.  Without using any math, Greene is able to explain the key points of all these topics, and most importantly, to show why Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are incompatible, and why that\'s a problem for physicists.  He then takes the reader through the various stages of thinking that have gone into String Theory, and it\'s fascinating stuff!  Greene uses copious examples to demonstrate concepts that are difficult to visualize or grasp, and this is incredibly helpful.  You definitely get a sense, for instance, of what a \"curled up dimension\" means, through some very clever reduced-dimension examples (not sure if these are Greene\'s constructions or well-known in the physics world, but they\'re very clear and helpful).  The going gets a little tougher towards the end  of the book, where the most recent thinking on String Theory and the discussion of Black Holes &amp; the early instants of the cosmos are more complex and tougher to grok straight through.  But even so, they are fascinating and worth the effort.<br>Greene\'s prose is clear, analytical, and well thought out.  At least a half dozen times while reading the book, I said to myself, \"Hmmm, but what about X?\" to find a few paragraphs later Greene would write,  \"You may be wondering about X.  Well, here\'s how that works...\" To me, this is a sign of a clear thinker and helped make the book even more enjoyable to read.  If you\'re at all interested in cutting edge physics theory, this is a great book to turn to.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7808,2538,'Eric Fleming','','','','2016-01-30 12:00:00','2016-01-30 12:00:00','I have enjoyed Brian Greene\'s work for many years and had this in hard copy.  I wanted to reread it in electronic form as a more convenient format.  I found that I  again became lost in thought as Brian lead me through M theory and hyperspace planes / dimensions.  Admittedly, while appealing as a theory the concept of strings operating in Calabi-Yau manifolds while exhibiting frequency shifts can never be scientifically tested.  Struggling with the Heisenberg principle with electrons, how can possibly test for strings assuming that principle remains operative?<br><br>However, I have read critics who consider his work as \"pop science.\"  While he does not go deeply in the the maths behind quantum mechanics, his intent was not to write a text book.  One challenge we face, and have since the dawn of scientific method is the communication of new paradigms and complex concepts into a more digestible form for our societies.  Only through engaging society in such a manner can be establish a broad base for priority change in terms of improved education, sustainable growth, investment  in the long view of society, and to prepare the next generations to manage our scarce resources properly while pushing the scientific frontier forward.  Authors and theorists such as Dr. Greene may error on the side of simplicity in this instance, but do it in the best, most beneficial and engaging manner possible.  Excellent read which I highly recommend.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7809,2538,'Brian Villanueva','','','','2004-06-15 12:00:00','2004-06-15 12:00:00','Toe central problem of physics today revolves around this conundrum:  Gravity is governed by Einstein\'s relativity theory, which requires that space-time is smooth.  Gravity has been experimentally verified.  Atomic forces are govered by quantum mechanics, which requires that space-time is bumpy, foamy, and irregular.  These atomic forces have been experimentally verified.<br>How can space time be smooth for gravity, and yet be bumpy for quantum machanics?  Enter string theory.<br>This book is a terrific introduction not only to string theory, but to relativity and quantum mechanics as well.  The first half of the book reviews the history and development of these theories, since they are a fundamental component  of string theory.  In particular, Greene\'s treatment of relativity uses some outstanding analogies to explain time dilation and gravitational warping.  I thought I understood the basics of relativity; this book still taught me a few things.<br>Analogies are this author\'s strength.  He uses them at every step to avoid the need to complex mathematical formulae.  There are no formulae in this book (some will think that a minus, but I view it as a plus.)  Using analogies, he\'s able to provide a comprehensible view of what 10-dimensional spacetime would be like, and how expanding one of the other dimensions might affect life in the Universe.  These 5 pages alone are probably worth the price of the book.<br>If you want a glimpse of one of the cutting-edge areas of particle physics research without needing to study math for 10 years, this book can give it to you.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7810,2538,'Randolph Eck','','','','2009-09-17 12:00:00','2009-09-17 12:00:00','The nature of the universe has always fascinated me, and in this book I have found an excellent description of the one we live in.<br>Green begins by discussing the particles and forces that are the underpinnings of our universe. He then goes on to discuss the nature of light and what he calls \"microscopic weirdness.\" It becomes evident as the information is presented that the general theory of relativity cannot explain everything. Quantum mechanics is necessary and this is where string theory enters the picture.<br><br>About the last two-thirds of the book discuss this theory. Here we learn about superstring theory, multiple dimensions, quantum geometry, how the fabric of space can tear and finally M-theory.<br><br>Green has saved the really esoteric scientific stuff for the notes section, and he has also provided a glossary section which was helpful. Nevertheless, I would not characterize this as an easy book to understand for the lay reader. I found that I had to stop reading after so many pages and simply digest what I had read. If you are involved in this field in any way, you probably will find it much easier. For me, this was my first exposure to this subject matter. Eventually I managed to get through all 400 plus pages of the book, and I enjoyed it immensely learning a great deal about the subject.<br><br>To help me remember all I was learning, I created an outline summary of the material in MS Word. I ended up with twenty-one pages of material. This gives you an idea of the wealth of information presented.<br><br>I highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in this subject matter.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7811,2538,'Patrick Kilduff','','','','2021-04-01 12:00:00','2021-04-01 12:00:00','Brian Greene has a way of telling me something I would have never understood until I heard him say it. I love to read up on theoretical physics, cosmology, quantum theories, etc. Usually I come away retaining one or two concepts from a book on these topics as the material is very...illusive. But this book has opened my mind to a subject I thought I\'d never even begin to grasp (string theory, 11 dimensional space) and how things I do understand fit in with it. Excellent book, with exciting ramifications.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7812,2538,'Bob Blum','','','','2000-02-05 12:00:00','2000-02-05 12:00:00','In this book on eleven-dimensional space-time, Brian Greene proves himself to be truly exceptional in at least three of those dimensions:  by his thorough comprehension of the origins and direction of theoretical physics  up through the emergence of superstring theory, by his monumental  contributions to that theory in identifying its components and extending  its reach, and, thirdly, in explaining this subject in a way that allows  the \"layman\" to gain an appreciation and intuitive understanding of  it.<br>By way of explaining the use of the term \"layman,\" let me point out  that this book is not light reading.  I don\'t believe it can be read by  those without at least some exposure to college level physics.  I am a  former high school physics teacher, and I had to really stretch to  understand Dr. Greene\'s explanations.  Nevertheless, considering the  mathematical and physical complexity of the subject matter, Dr. Greene has  done a splendid and remarkable job of explaining the subject at a  conceptual, nonmathematical level. Anyone with a physics background through  the level of an introductory course in modern physics will find Dr.  Greene\'s treatise accessible.  It brings the reader closer to the current  state of research in the rapidly moving field of superstring theory than  books written even two years ago.<br>  The book requires work, but it was  a labor of love.  This book is beautifully and artfully written and was a  joy to read.  I recommend it highly to anyone with the modest physics  background described above who enjoys exploring theoretical physics and  cosmology at a level approximating that of Scientific American.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7813,2538,'Elezer Puglia Jr.','','','','2006-02-27 12:00:00','2006-02-27 12:00:00','Brian Greene accomplishes it all in one sweep: he tells an enjoyable, enthralling story - a real page turner - and he gets a thoroughly complicated message accross even to non-trained readers. My background is that of an electronics engineer, with only basic training in quantum mechanics. As Dr. Greene mentions a few times in the book, maybe it will take two or three (or more, depending on your background) readings to be able to fully digest it all, but even if you read it only once, it suffices to put you up-to-date with the advancements (and, still, some shortcomings) of string theory in the direction of the TOE.<br><br>I am excitedly waiting to see some of the expectations of the scientific community regarding string theory confirmed (or not) in the coming years - and the best part is, I feel certainly able at least to follow the results, after having read this masterfully written book.<br><br>If you are, like me, one of those astronomy fans whose first contact with astronomy and cosmology was Isaac Asimov\'s \"The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar\", then felt delighted with Stephen Hawking\'s \"A Brief History of Time\", then I strongly recommend that you pick this one up as a worthy sequel to those masterpieces.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7814,2538,'S.Roberdet','','','','2010-09-21 12:00:00','2010-09-21 12:00:00','I didn\'t think before reading this book that it was possible to explain such complicated concepts and theories without mathematics. The explanations are accessible for everybody and Brian Greene never gives up his scientific rigour : as soon as an analogy is used, the caveats are always meticulousely stated.<br>I loved a number of very famous science books like \"a brief history of time\"  by Stephen Hawking or \"the first three minutes\" by Steven Weinberg. I also read Leonard Susskind\'s \"the black hole war\" and \"The cosmic landscape\" that were excellent books as well...<br>But after the reading of all these books I always got the impression that here and there, the explanations were somewhat vague or incomplete... I was convinced that it was impossible to do better.<br>It is the reason why I was so amazed by what I discovered in \"the Elegant Universe\". Here, Brian Greene takes such a care of his readers that there isn\'t a single notion introduced without a very careful introduction of what it means, and you get quickly the feeling that literally everything that can be explained without mathematics is, and still you are astounded by the depth of the explanations.<br>\"The elegant universe\" is at this stage the best science book I have ever read.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7815,2538,'Koan','','','','2016-02-29 12:00:00','2016-02-29 12:00:00','Brian Greene is one of the leading physicists in cosmology and String theory. He explained the most difficult theories of Einstein relativity, string theory and multiverses in a very simple words. He drew many day to day examples to explain difficult concepts, like space curvature and many others, till we not only understand it but feel it.<br>The String Theory is very difficult to understand since it tries to bridge the gap between macrocosm and the microcosm of the quantum physics. Greene made it very accessible to us. Still String theory is not complete and conclusive, it is work in progress. The way it is explained made me convinced that it is the ultimate theory which Einstein was looking for.<br>The scope of the book is huge, many technical terms, a lot of detailed notes and detailed history of the beginning of the theory tens of years ago. After I red the book I feel the need to read it again and read all Greene\'s books. This is a must read book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7816,2538,'Big Bear','','','','2018-09-21 12:00:00','2018-09-21 12:00:00','Excellent!!!<br>Dr. Green gives a brief introduction into the history of physics of the last century or so including great introduction to the laws of Relativity (both Special and General) and Quantum Mechanics. And then - on to the latest: the String Theory. It includes the major problems in physics and how they were resolved  by one or another theory (sometimes creating new problems).<br>All this is done from the viewpoint not of a journalist, but of a scientist - an actual contributor to some of the major discoveries.<br>What I found the most amazing is that all these extremely complicated issues are explained using not formulas, but pictures and analogies that are put together in such a way that anyone can read it and get the conceptual understanding of the basic facts (deeper understanding would, of course, require serious math background).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7817,2538,'R. Cleaver','','','','2005-02-25 12:00:00','2005-02-25 12:00:00','One reviewer said he/she stopped reading because there\'s no experimental evidence to support the theory.  Well, duh?  Ever heard of the scientific method?  You develop a theory, then test it to see if it works.  This same guy would probably have thought Einstein was a hack, since it took years to validate his theory.  Does anyone think Einstein was a hack (well, maybe the moron who wrote \"The Final Theory.\")<br><br>I prefer to have an open mind (I\'d even be willing to accept \"The Final Theory\" if it can be demonstrated by experiment - but don\'t hold your breath.)<br><br>This book is aimed at the heart of the scientific method.  Future techology will provide the means to test the theory.  In the meantime, if you can\'t dispute the theory through rigorous analysis, then your might try developing an experiment to test it.  If you can\'t do that, then wait for someone who can.<br><br>I for one find it an acceptable and entertaining way to engage the non-scientist.  Other physicists could learn from him.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7818,2538,'Roberto Rigolin F Lopes','','','','2018-10-08 12:00:00','2018-10-08 12:00:00','We are in 1999, Greene is talking about the physicists quest to explain the universe on elegant terms. ELEGANT, hum? Right now things are inconsistent (say you can\'t explain gravity using quantum mechanics). So ELEGANT here means “a quantum-mechanically CONSISTENT description of all forces and all matter” (his own words). He did a great job explaining how string theory was created to TRY to connect together gravity (relativity), electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. But finishing this book is like stepping out a Museum of Modern Art. You are about to see some CRAZY abstractions within quantum geometry. Those many curled dimensions in a Calabi-Yau space look graceful at first.  But you can\'t step out of the Universe and relax.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7819,2538,'Critical Reasoner','','','','2005-08-13 12:00:00','2005-08-13 12:00:00','What an awe inspiring and almost \"Religious\" experience it is to delve down into what may well be the ultimate origin of \"all things reality\".<br><br>This book is a wondrous journey through what has been a series of evolving theories first known as String Theory (theories really) and then presently as M Theory.<br><br>The idea that all of creation in all of its manifestations might actually boil down to nothing more than shattered little shards of space that vibrate within a multiplicity of dimensions, thereby attaining all of the properties of energy, matter, space itself, or even gravity.....this is as good as it gets for the intellectually curious reader.<br><br>There has, in my estimation been no other writer to approach the ability of Carl Sagan to relay the majesty of the universe in scientifically yet poetically powerful terms. Brian Greene has come the closest to doing such that I have yet found. Do not miss this book. Nor ought you miss Fabric of the Cosmos, also by this author which is a close second to The Elegant Universe.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7820,2538,'Scott U.','','','','2020-05-02 12:00:00','2020-05-02 12:00:00','Brian does a great job of consolidating all the historical discoveries germane to this highly evocative insight of a very possible explanation of the full accounting of what we\'ve learned about the universe to date. It\'s still one of mankind\'s greatest mysteries as to why elegant mathematical descriptions of nature often prove to be so accurate in the end - perhaps we\'re learning that our collective, scientific (apolitical) spirit will ultimately allow us to glimpse at the beautiful \"mind of God\" (for mathematics is the universally accepted language of all men). Truly a mind expanding book!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7821,2538,'OHYN','','','','1999-08-07 12:00:00','1999-08-07 12:00:00','If M-Theory and Superstring is simplified any further, we can all skip undergraduate physics and spend our graduate school years unravelling M-Theory. Greene has done a marvellous job.<br>I am a Family Physician and  an author (titles in Metaphysics); I devoured The Elegant Universe in a  week or less. Greene\'s ability to bring lofty astrophysical concepts to the  masses in the trenches is only reminiscent of the hugely successful efforts  of the late Carl Sagan.<br>M-Theory is up to something. I wouldn\'t be  surprised when, in a few years, \"M\" can explain that the universe  is neither expanding forever, nor destined to shrink again; but that this  dimension (\"our\" universe) is currently only undergoing a  \"pinch,\" an inflation, or is in the process of reparing one--a la  Super String.<br>Greene is honest--never hiding an \"all this could be  wrong\" admission. But so what if it\'s all wrong? Newton invented  Calculus to explain the world of his concept--and it worked some. If we  \"invent\" \"M\" and it works, we will be that much further  ahead. If it doesn\'t, we move on.<br>Thanks to Greene, we the (lay)people  can be part of this exciting and challenging paradigm. The  \"Elegant\" in the book\'s title applies equally well to Greene\'s  literary effort and style.<br>Great job!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7822,2538,'Yellowkid','','','','2014-07-04 12:00:00','2014-07-04 12:00:00','I was a liberal arts major, math was never my strong suit and I have had to struggle with many of the concepts here, reading and rereading them to understand what the author is saying. It has  been well worth it though because as I begin to understand what is being said, I find it absolutely mind blowing. I have heard the phrase \"spacetime\" in the past, had even read a couple of explanations which left me feeling like the village idiot, but Greene\'s writing makes it comprehensible. I feel I have a pretty good grip on relativity and special relativity, if not with the actual constructs, then at least with the analogous examples.  I am only 100 pages or so into the \"Elegant Universe,\" I have to read some and then stop and digest it before moving on, but moving on is something I plan to do.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7823,2538,'Jeremiah Miller','','','','2017-08-05 12:00:00','2017-08-05 12:00:00','The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, is, hands down, the BEST quantum physics, universal theory book, outside of scripture. This is the case because the author draws from all previous major authors, physicists, theories, and discoveries, ties them together, and then presents the results, in laymen\'s terms, so that anyone and everyone can effortlessly grasp and understand our currently most widely accepted understanding of our \"elegant universe.\"<br>The field that this covers is always evolving as new discoveries, understandings, and advancements are progressed, however, this book presents our currently most widely accepted understanding as exactly that, our current best observation. It also transparently labels questions as questions. It\'s amazing! 6 stars.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7824,2538,'jane arc','','','','2000-07-13 12:00:00','2000-07-13 12:00:00','I started reading books like this when I was quite young -- 13. I started with _Schrodinger\'s Cat_ and moved on to _A Brief History of Time_, and then started taking physics courses to get more information.<br>However, all  of this string theory should be new, even to undergrad college students.  Most college physics professors will only teach or even briefly touch upon  what is 100% confirmed. String theory is fascinating (if not confirmed) --  but you probably wont find it in a run-of-the-mill classroom.<br>The author  presents his information in a very convincing manner. Another reader said  \"facts-about-to-be-proved\" or somesuch. This is true. I find no  reason to disagree with his methods of explaining this theory and am rather  glad that he comes across like he does.<br>The book is not an _easy_ read --  I\'ve had quite a few college physics courses and I found myself struggling  towards the end -- but it is a worthwhile read for anyone who understands  general relativity and/or quantum mechanics and would like to understand  where the two of them meet.<br>I would recommend the book to anyone.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7825,2538,'johncusack1989','','','','2019-09-16 12:00:00','2019-09-16 12:00:00','It took me about 6 months worth of lunches at work to read through this. It is a very in depth and informative book about what the current view on our understanding of what the universe is made up of and how it works. It was one of the those books that I was sad to finish it. There are also some great analogies in there that helped me better understand some concepts. I\'ll probably need to reread this again in a year or so.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7826,2538,'D. Robinson','','','','2006-11-05 12:00:00','2006-11-05 12:00:00','I\'ve recently gone on a quest to update my knowledge (circa 1970 undergrad physics) of SpaceTime, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and Cosmology.  In doing so I\'ve read, \"Elegant Universe\" and \"the Fabric of the Cosmos\" by Brian Greene and \"Universe in a Nutshell\" by Stephen Hawkins.<br><br>All of these works are excellent and have left me thinking \'WOW\'. For days afterwards I keep thinking back and wondering ...<br><br>How can a quantum wave equation \'collapse\' instantly through the universe when the particle it represents is \'detected\' in one location?<br><br>What is the meaning of extra dimensions?<br><br>How do these new discoveries effect Theology?<br><br>Is the Entropy explanation the only reason that only Time in SpaceTime is uni-directional (fwd only)?<br><br>Etc Etc<br><br>Don\'t expect these works to sum up \'in a nutshell\' - they fill one with awe and deep questions.<br><br>For my little brain, this has been a wonderful journey - opening up new worlds and, in particular, a new understanding of the Universe.  All three of these books have been superb travel guides.  My math is totally rusty but that was no detriment to reading either of these three as they do not depend on mathematical schema for there explanations.<br><br>However, I\'ll rank them:<br><br>5 stars to Fabric of Cosmos<br><br>4 stars to Elegant Universe<br><br>4 stars to Universe in a Nutshell.<br><br>Fabric is copyright 2006 and includes up to date (fall 2006) info in these rapidly advancing fields.  Fabric is more about SpaceTime than string theory predictions (or lack of predictions) regarding the fundamental matter and energy constituents of the Universe. IMHO Brian Greene does a much better job of proceeding sequentially through a topic than Stephen Hawkins.<br><br>Elegant Universe (as was his Discovery Channel series) very dependent on String Theory explanations, which is great if string theory proves to be correct, but doesn\'t quite cover the objections to string theory (which are many) or provide good coverage of alternate theories (see Hawkins books for that). Nevertheless it covers a modern understanding of the Universe and its constituents very well.<br><br>The same could be said for Stephen Hawkins in reverse - he doesn\'t support string theory but does support quantum electrodynamics. Often in reading \'Nutshell\' I\'d be brought up short by what, to me, was a jump in conclusions.  He doesn\'t lay down nearly the smooth explanatory path that Brian Greene does. So, from an understanding of Physics standpoint, I rate Elegant over Nutshell; but, Stephen Hawkins is a Nobel Laurate and sits on the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge (previously held by Newton and Dirac).  His \'A Brief History of Time\" and \"Universe in a Nutshell\" are both fine reads, and have the added advantage of providing a glimpse into a great mind and personal stories describing some conflicts between physicists.<br><br>If your focus new discoveries about SpaceTime and the Universe - I\'d go with Fabric.<br><br>If you interest is more towards the Universe and its fundamental constituents (especially as described by string theories) then  I\'d go with Elegant Universe.<br><br>If you want both physics of the Universe and some insights into a great character - go with Nutshell.<br><br>I\'m glad I\'ve read all three! I\'d especially recommend reading one each from Greene and Hawkins - their different view points highlight the very vigorous on-going debate on major issues.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7827,2538,'Howard P. Grill','','','','2009-07-25 12:00:00','2009-07-25 12:00:00','For me, this was like two books in one.  Let me explain:<br><br>The first third of the book is truly amazing. This \'book within a book\' explains in layman\'s terms the physics of the universe which is already accepted as \'truth\'.  These concepts are ordinarily difficult for the non-physicist, non-mathematician to grasp.  With beautiful clarity and eloquence, the author is able, using understandable examples, to explain concepts such as time moving more slowly and physical dimensions changing as the speed of light is approached.  The probability concepts of quantum mechanics and the problem of reconciling quantum mechanics with the physics of large fast moving objects are discussed in a very understandable way.  This part of the book gets a strong 5 star rating for sure.<br><br>But the last 2/3 of the book was, to me, less impressive.  This is the portion that explains string theory and how it integrates with classic physics.  The discussion goes through a history of the development of string theory.  Perhaps, given the relative \'newness of the theory, there may not be any other way to go about the discussion.  But I found it somewhat tedious, difficult and certainly less exciting to go through the theory\'s evolution than trying to understand where it stands today.<br><br>Additionally, in my opinion, the explanations involving string theory discussion did not have the same clarity as the first part of the book and I don\'t believe that it is simply because the theory is \'harder\' to understand.  It seemed like it was written in a totally different style, and if you told me that there were separate authors for the \'classic physics\' portion of the book and the string theory portion of the book I would have no trouble believing it.<br><br>So, all in all, a strong 5 stars for the first third of the book and 3 stars for the last 2/3...and an overall 4 stars.  I should note that I did glean a great deal from the last 2/3, but I just wish it were written \'by the same person\' that wrote the first part.  Still...I think there is so much information here that the book is one that should be read by anyone who wants to try to understand our universe more deeply.  Just remember that string theory is just that...a theory, albeit a seemingly strong and elegant one.<br><br>As an aside, I have a Kindle DX and when I downloaded the book all the diagrams and figure were there.  So, while I am sure it was true that at one point the figures were missing, as noted by many prior reviewers, the figures are now in the Kindle download and display beautifully on the DX. I don\'t have a K2 so I can\'t say anything about how they display on that.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7828,2538,'Mary Soon Lee','','','','2019-10-15 12:00:00','2019-10-15 12:00:00','This book describes physicists\' search for a theory of the universe and the current state of their understanding, focusing on the author\'s own area of expertise: superstring theory. I found it rewarding, thought-provoking, and illuminating, though at times very challenging.  As a footnote in chapter ten states, \"Some of the ideas in this and the next few sections are rather subtle, so don\'t be put off if you have trouble following every link in the explanatory chain...\"<br><br>I like the way the book is organized. Before Greene goes deep into string theory, he has chapters on special relativity, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and on the difficulty reconciling the last two of these with each other. This sets the stage for string theory, a theory which enables the merging of general relativity and quantum mechanics. The middle of the book then presents the main framework of string theory, leaving the final chapters to delve into its connection to M-Theory, black holes, and cosmology. Greene describes difficult concepts without diving into mathematics -- mostly successfully, though I was left baffled on a couple of occasions -- leaving it to the chapter notes to hint at the mathematical details. (I note that I have a mathematics degree, but it doesn\'t encompass the math of string theory.)<br><br>I love the quest to find the ultimate underpinnings of the universe, a quest that has some of the same flavor as fundamental philosophical questions. The possibilities that the book raises are fascinating: that the fundamental ingredients of the universe may not be elementary particles, but rather vibrating strings or branes; that the universe may not have begun in a pure big bang singularity, but in a tiny Planck-size nugget of strings; that the familiar four space/time dimensions may be outnumbered by additional dimensions curled up in strange Calabi-Yau shapes. Highly recommended.<br><br>About my reviews: I try to review every book I read, including those that I don\'t end up enjoying. The reviews are not scholarly, but just indicate my reaction as a reader, reading being my addiction. I am miserly with 5-star reviews; 4 stars means I liked a book very much; 3 stars means I liked it; 2 stars means I didn\'t like it (though often the 2-star books are very popular with other readers and/or are by authors whose other work I\'ve loved).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7829,2538,'cmk','','','','2014-04-15 12:00:00','2014-04-15 12:00:00','The book:<br>An introduction to the state of the art in string theory for the layperson, via a thorough review of relativity, and a summary of quantum mechanics.<br><br>The reviewer:<br>A layperson with a long standing interest in astrophysics, but delving into string theory for the first time. I discovered Greene\'s \"Elegant Universe\"  through his entertaining hosting of the wonderfully produced Nova series of the same title.<br><br>The medium:<br>I didn\'t feel i was missing too much by reading the kindle edition. the numerous diagrams read fairly well in monochrome. It would have been nice to more easily jump back and forth between endnotes (why don\'t they make these clickable!?) but for the most part it works well as a linear read.<br><br>Critique:<br>It\'s the supreme challenge of books of science written for the layperson (certainly ones with such mind-bending concepts as this one) to speak to the level of a perhaps unknowable student. Greene admirably rises to this challenge, but (for my part) with occasionally inconsistent results. Some explanations seem unduly drawn out or redundant, while others feel glossed over. The discussion of relativity for example, seemed repeated ad nauseum, while some things that were newer to me/harder for me to digest, like the nature of calabi yau spaces or the differences between the 5 string theories, left me feeling that my understanding was far from complete. In fairness this could well be due to the depth and complexity of the things being discussed and the limitations of this reader\'s own mind, but overall the amount of ink spilled didn\'t always seem to match the complexity of the idea being explained. On the whole the moments of redundancy, were appreciated, making it an easy read to take in chunks as a bathroom reader or while strap-hanging. Finally, in such a cutting edge field, a ten year old publication can already feel outdated at times, but this is exciting more than it is disappointing, and spurs one to investigate the latest news in the field.<br><br>Praise:<br>Greene is at the top of his writing game as he gives first hand accounts of when he was at the top of his game scientifically, collaborating in significant breakthroughs in the field. I think developing one\'s own understanding of science mirroring the historical development of humanity\'s understanding of science is a great way to learn, and Greene has enough a sense of history and colorful quotes throughout to help make this happen.<br><br>on the whole:<br>a highly recommended read for those with a burgeoning interest in string theory and/or in humanity\'s latest understanding of the earliest moments of the universe as we know it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7830,2538,'Gary M. Guinn','','','','2020-12-07 12:00:00','2020-12-07 12:00:00','Brian Greene\'s The Elegant Universe is a beautiful book. A difficult book at times, but beautiful just the same. Greene is a good science writer in the sense that he balances narrative with explanation so that the reader feels they are in the grip of a story and at the same time are pushed to learn new ideas.<br><br>The focus of the book is, as the subtitle offers, the \"Quest for the Ultimate Theory.\" Greene and many other physicists have for decades, even for centuries, been searching for a theory of the physical world that explains why everything is the way it is. Not just what is happening, both at the sub-microscopic and the hyper-macroscopic levels, but why it is happening, what exactly causes one thing to lead to another. They are, in effect, attempting to take the ground that has been held for the entire history of humanity by religion. The \"why\" of everything. Greene and his camp (and there certainly are opposing camps) are convinced that superstring theory is the most likely candidate for the ultimate theory. But like all good scientists, they hold close to their chests the caveat that another, bigger, more comprehensive theory might come along. It\'s an exciting journey, and Brian Greene has been an important player along the way. He speaks not just as an observer but as a key participant.<br><br>I confess to being lost in the concepts of quantum geometry, but I was enthralled with the possibilities of string theory to unite the findings of classical and quantum physics. I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in scientific theories of the ultimate, of attempts to understand everything from the beginning (and maybe even before the beginning) to the possible endings of the universe.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7831,2538,'H. E. Thunder','','','','2017-03-09 12:00:00','2017-03-09 12:00:00','I should start with the fact that I\'m not a physicist. I read the book and this review is about what I understood from reading the book.<br><br>The main purpose of the book is to present string theory as the fundamental theory to explain the universe (the first chapter and page 386). Considering the fact that the author is a string theorist, this is not surprising. Although a great effort is made to show string theory as a viable theory, my main take is not how powerful string theory is, but quite the opposite how weak, at least currently, it is.<br><br>The theory is not a result of any experimental observations. Strings are proposed to be vibrating tiny objects (strings) which nobody has observed directly or indirectly. It is built on some mathematical equations that nobody knows how to solve. Not only that, its approximating equations cannot even be solved. Page 19 reads: “… and those of other experts in the field indicate that it could be decades or even centuries before string theory is fully developed and understood. This may well be true. In fact, the mathematics of string theory is so complicated that, to date, no one even knows the exact equations of the theory. Instead, physicists know only approximations to these equations, and even the approximate equations are so complicated that they as yet have been only partially solved.”<br><br>The main problem with string theory is that it is almost completely built in people’s imaginations. But no one knows if that imagination will match with the realities of the physical world. It is even worse than this: Even the imagination is half baked. (There are incomplete and unsolvable mathematical equations behind imaginations though!) I’m completely disappointed with string theory. The author makes an effort to promote string theory but promoting an incomplete theory is a risky business. The author admits that all the efforts put into string theory may turn futile some time in the future.<br><br>There is a great summary of the two other big challenges faced by the physicists of the 20th century. A good summary of special relativity and general relativity are given in the first chapters, with lots of analogies.<br><br>It is still a good book for people who are not physicists and are interested in what string theory is about.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7832,2538,'Luke','','','','2011-02-02 12:00:00','2011-02-02 12:00:00','Upon finishing The Elegant Universe, as a high school student interested in physics I must say that this book was a very great read. Greene gave great insights into both present day advancements and challenges of theoretical/string physics. The lead up to the main part of the book (string theory and it\'s impact on the fabric of space) gave a very informational background of historical conflicts in physics as well as a crash course in General and Special Relativity. The explanations given for any hard to mentally grasp topic were very understandable. Also, I know that string physics is not an easy topic. As much as Greene did an amazing job explaining it to the masses, there still is at times in the book where I had to re-read several key sentences 3 or 4 times in order to perfectly digest and understand the meaning. It is certainly not an easy read by any means and don\'t expect to rip right through the pages if you want a consist understanding of the topic at hand.<br><br>The logical flow of the book was genius, beautifully flowing from one topic to another. Each previous topic being discussed was applied to the next. There was a touch of enthusiasm in Greene\'s writing tone which made me keep on reading day in and day out, anticipating when I would have free time again to read more. By any means I am not an avid reader, but this book had me almost in a level of suspense when I stopped reading, pondering what the next chapter would reveal.<br><br>The reason being I gave this book 4-stars was as follows: Sometimes terms popped up in the book that Greene had not previously elaborated, nor being in the glossary of terms. This might have some resort to the almighty google. Also, this book was published around 1999, so the information might be a little outdated since 12 years is a long time for a for scientists to discover new breakthroughs in the developing theory. Other then that, I highly recommend this to everyone interested in a good read. It makes one ponder the true reality of the universe (or even multiverse).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7833,2538,'Daniel R. Sanderman','','','','2005-04-07 12:00:00','2005-04-07 12:00:00','Either love him or hate him: Brian Greene and his book are here to stay.  Recently, I have been intrigued by the ideas of physics and have been digesting the work of a few physicists (and there seems to be a number) who also write extremely well.  Alan Lightman comes to mind (_Great Ideas in Physics_) and I must say that Greene\'s book does a much better job explaining Special &amp; General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics to a reader without much of a physics background.  The first couple hundred pages of this book truly surprised me, as I was impressed with Lightman\'s treatment of these areas, not knowing that such a good account was out there.  If you\'re looking for an introduction to Relativity and Quantum Mechanics and the debate surrounding the two, you\'ve come to the right place.<br><br>I also enjoyed Greene\'s chapters that gave the overview of strings and the general shape of the theory.  Many of the later chapters are highly technical and, while I read them carefully, I know that the ideas will not stay with me long, particularly in places where Greene has not provided a nice visual metaphor to help the solidify the concept.  Greene is so good at doing this in earlier chapters, one wonders if he simply got tired as the book progressed or if the complexity of the subject matter has simply advanced beyond a point where metaphors can even begin to latch onto the concepts they are aimed at clarifying.  In either case, this book is truly memorable for certain images and metaphors and these concepts will stick in your mind.<br><br>Is this a book for the masses?  Yes and no.  I think that most educated persons will be able to get much out of the first couple hundred of pages, but you may need to spend some time with them making sure that you are understanding it.  As the chapters march on, you will find yourself losing interest and getting lost in some of Greene\'s explanations.  I think that only someone with some background in physics will understand everything that is held between these pages, but this should not deter you from reading it.  No matter what you think of string theory, Brian Greene\'s book is very intriguing and a nice read-even for a Philosophy/English major.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7834,2538,'Lance C. Hibbeler','','','','2010-07-05 12:00:00','2010-07-05 12:00:00','Brian Greene, professor of physics at Columbia, has written a nice yarn about modern physics (though it is a little dated as I write this), specifically focusing on string theory. As Greene himself admits, string theory has yet to be experimentally validated, but that doesn\'t stop him. After all, quarks were a theoretical pipe-dream for a few years before they were experimentally observed. Only posterity will tell if string theory will be placed in the same trashcan as phlogiston and caloric, or on the central pedestal of science as Greene and his cohorts hope. Anyway, I\'m here to judge \"The Elegant Universe\", not string theory itself. String theory is a candidate (though by no means the only one) for the holy grail of physics, a grand unified theory from which all other aspects of physics can be derived.<br><br>Even if you aren\'t science-inclined, this book is quite approachable. Despite the subject matter, no equation appears outside of E=mc². Greene works entirely with analogies to explain the subject matter; most work, some don\'t. To build up to string theory, Greene first presents a review of special and general relativity and quantum mechanics. The section of relativity is, in my opinion, incredibly lucid. I learned more from his explanation than I did in my high school and university physics classes. Quantum mechanics is bizarre in an of itself, but Greene nevertheless does an admirable job explaining the basics.  The section on string theory is interesting. Since we are on the bleeding edge of it, I\'m not surprised that I found things a little muddy and had to re-read a few passages. Nevertheless, I understand it a great deal more. I won\'t be able to take on an actual theorist, but I probably could win an argument concerning strings in a bar.<br><br>Greene doesn\'t have the boundless enthusiasm of Michio Kaku or wit (or emphasis on the actual people) of Leonard Mlodinow, but the tone is hardly dry or boring. If you\'re interested at all in string theory or one part of what modern physicists do, this is probably a book for you. All you need is an open mind and a little background in science.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7835,2538,'Dyan','','','','2022-10-22 12:00:00','2022-10-22 12:00:00','I love reading Brian Greene even though the dude is way too advanced intellectually for me. Not his best book, but still damn, damn  good in my book ( no pun intended), especially if you like to think and ponder about big stuff.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7836,2538,'Brad','','','','2022-05-12 12:00:00','2022-05-12 12:00:00','Great book! Very easily understandable except for a couple of chapters in the middle dealing with spin, symmetry, and quantum geometry. If you have a basic foundation in physics, Brian Greene makes string theory readily accessible. His explanations of special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics are very easy to understand, and his chapters dealing with string cosmology are very interesting. Those readers with little to no background in particle physics may have to skip the aforementioned chapters, but this doesn’t take away from the book. Overall, an engrossing read, one I would do again!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7837,2538,'Thomas Paul','','','','2004-01-29 12:00:00','2004-01-29 12:00:00','Superstring Theory is the hot topic in Physics these days and this book is written by a physicist heavily involved in research on the topic.  The book starts with a quick introduction to special relativity, general relativity, and then quantum mechanics.  It is a lot of information to digest in three quick chapters so at least some familiarity with the topics will be useful.  Think of this more as a refresher than a tutorial.  The author then explains why current theories have a huge hole and how string theory might be able to close that hole.<br>The author does a very good job of explaining string theory to the point where a layman can actually make some sense of it all.  He uses examples, metaphors, and analogies that simplify the concepts so that although we may not have the deep understanding that a physicist would have we can at least get a glimpse of what ten dimensional space is like and why it is important to string theory.  Although the author is a proponent of the theory this does not prevent him from allowing the critics of the theory to have their say.<br>I will admit that the book does bog down in places and not all his explanations are crystal clear.  I did feel lost in places and never got a real feel for ten dimensional space although I did at least get an idea of why it is important.  The Nova series based on the book covers the same territory but the book goes into more detail so if the Nova series intrigued you then this book is well worth reading.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7838,2538,'Paul Lutes','','','','2003-11-10 12:00:00','2003-11-10 12:00:00','Professor Greene gives an excellent introduction to the world of breakthrough science, how it often occurs by reconciling conflicts between two successful but mutually incompatible theories. For example, Einstein reconciled Newton\'s Mechanics and Maxwellian Electromagnetics with his Special Theory of Relativity. The current Big Question in the physical sciences now is how to obtain a theory akin to \"quantum gravity\" - i.e., how to reconcile Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity.  The book motivates this topic very well, then proceeds to give a very intuitive yet accurate account of the basics of String Theory. Often science journalists are good at metaphor and analogies but do so at the risk of misleading the reader. Because Professor Greene is a leading researcher in the field, he avoids that trap.  However, when explaining more recent aspects of the theory, which are more complex and speculative than the basic \"elegant\" foundation, the book loses clarity.  Perhaps it is because the findings are too new, and the scientists themselves still don\'t really understand the details well enough to explain them to others. Regardless, for understanding the nuances (albeit not the details) of the latest developments of string theory watch the Nova production by the same name, which is also narrated by the author, and which covers recent progress in the theory that is either not in the book at all or is not explained as well in the book. Although it falls short of explaining the entire theory as well as it introduces it, it is nonetheless the best book available now that is accurate yet accessible to the non-scientist reader.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7839,2538,'Camilo Echeverri Gonzalez','','','','2017-10-19 12:00:00','2017-10-19 12:00:00','This is the first time I have to read a book twice. I literally went from the last page of the book to the first and started over because I did not feel I had gotten more than 30% of the book (improved to about 80-90%) in that first pass.<br><br>As I read it the first time, I thought most of the theories felt like science fiction, and thus they had to be wrong (never mind that they were developed by the most brilliant human beings in history)... I could not relate any of what I was reading to my daily life and I fwlt that what I was being asked to believe was too much.... not on the second pass: that time I used much more imagination and allowed “science fiction” to be real. That changed everything for me and the second time I was able to really see the universe as this place where “unbelievable” things can happen.<br><br>The hardest part for me about this book is the inability to visualize more than 3 spatial dimensions (probably many feel this same way), despite the authors emphasis on trying to extrapolate his examples to lower dimensions where visualization is common place.<br><br>My only complaint is that the book was written in the 90s and i am sure that there has been plenty proved and disproved about what is discussed in the book and so my only real want would be that they had a modere updated edition which clarifies where some of the mysteries (at the time) have been cleared',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7840,2538,'Pam Shelton-Anderson','','','','2021-05-30 12:00:00','2021-05-30 12:00:00','What a fascinating topic! I do love physics and this author has a knack for being able to explain this particular subject well.  A few of the examples were puzzling to me but most were very good as were the illustrations.  He does an excellent job in explaining relativity, quantum physics and the basics of string and M-theory.  I also enjoyed the author\'s pursuit of his own work in string theory. The discussion  at the end about the possible future of study here was interested though seemed to drag just a bit.  Overall I enjoyed this excellent book and will have to read it again to assimilate what I missed (which was likely a lot).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7841,2538,'Ed Barton','','','','2011-03-05 12:00:00','2011-03-05 12:00:00','Brian Greene\'s book on the superstring theory, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, deserves a read - if only for an appreciation for the discipline and complexity of advanced physics, and his ability to reduce extremely complex theories to a level that a smart, but \"normal\" person can understand.<br><br>I say it that way because the book itself is still a pretty advanced read.  While Greene does a very fine job in serving up both the history and the theory of superstrings, quantum mechanics, relativity and Newtonian physics - it sure helps to have some level of familiarity with them.  20+ years removed from my last physics class in college left me struggling a bit to keep up - even with Greene\'s effective \"common man\" writing style.  You can only reduce the explanation down so far and still be effective in conveying the profundity of it.<br><br>End of the day, Greene does a fine job trying to show that the superstring theory has both theoretical and physical support as the foundational \"theory of everything\".  His discussions of both the theory and the history of its development are well written and very interesting - as well as supported by copious endnotes for further digging.  If you have interest in the topic - pick up the book (after you\'ve brushed up on your college physics).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7842,2538,'J. Groen','','','','2015-11-25 12:00:00','2015-11-25 12:00:00','This book provides the essence of string theory, superstring theory and M-theory.  The book starts by covering Einstein\'s Relativity and Quantum Field Theory and why the two conflict.  String theory purportedly connects the two although the author, in my opinion, clearly doesn\'t identify how it does.  Also, apparently, at least as of the writing of this book, string theory has not had a major proof that it is on the right track.  There is no confirmation proof that this is an accurate theory through experiment, etc. for a theory that has been around for about 30 years.  In contrast, Relativity was proven to be on the right track with 5 years of its publication when Eddington\'s observation found that light did curve around the sun.<br><br>In spite of that, this is an interesting book, from Euler\'s B-Formula to Calabi-Yau spaces, as a math major, I found these concepts to be intriguing.  Also, the author\'s description of the difference of mathematicians and physicists was enlightening.  The examples that the author provides also make this book somewhat easy to understand.  However, I only recommend this book for someone very interested in this topic.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7843,2538,'FCRichelieu','','','','2017-08-10 12:00:00','2017-08-10 12:00:00','This book is recommended for any reader who is interested in the application of string theory to cosmology.<br><br>The first few chapters cover special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics. The author must be commended for his vivid account of the scientific exploration in these important areas over the past century. His remarkably clear explanation, in terms that a lay reader should be able to follow without difficulty, makes it fun to read.<br><br>Nevertheless, reading becomes rather more difficult as the author goes into string theory and its applications in cosmology. Even as an accomplished string theorist, it must be very difficult for the author to explain in lay terms a relatively new theory in physics that involves complex mathematics (in topology and other areas). And to try to explain the intricacies of the theory without actually going into the mathematics involved makes the task doubly difficult. A lay reader\'s difficulty with the detailed account may also reflect the state of play of string theory, which has yet to receive the thorough study given to relativity and quantum mechanics over the course of the past century.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),(7844,2538,'Enrique Perez de Vargas','','','','2006-04-08 12:00:00','2006-04-08 12:00:00','This book is an excellent introduction to superstring theories, mostly readable by non-experts. The author has deep knowledge of the different matters that are treated in the book, and he is able to explain them in a way that can be easily understood. For me, the best is the excellent analogies that simplify the explanations of the different matters. It is very common in these types of books to use analogies, but they are usually too simple, and difficult to associate with the real thing. In this case, the author is able to find really good examples.<br><br>I think it is a very recommendable book. One thing that I did not like much was the excessive length of the explanations devoted to the author\'s own achievements in this area. No doubt at all they are very important, and it is good to reflect that the author has been deeply involved in the developments of the superstring theories, but I think that a lighter approach would have been better. And another weak point of this book, from my point of view, is the excessive enthusiasm for these theories, in spite of the lack support from experimental results. Apart from that, I enjoyed the book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','review',0,0),