ABSTRACT

A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics invites its readers to a guided exploration of the theoretical ideas that shape our contemporary understanding of the physical world at the fundamental level. Its central themes, comprising space-time geometry and the general relativistic account of gravity, quantum field theory and the gauge theories of

chapter 1|4 pages

Introduction: The Ways of Nature

chapter 2|40 pages

Geometry

chapter 4|44 pages

General Relativity and Gravitation

chapter 5|24 pages

Quantum Theory

chapter 8|20 pages

Forces, Connections and Gauge Fields

chapter 9|38 pages

Interacting Relativistic Field Theories

chapter 10|32 pages

Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

chapter 11|30 pages

Phase Transitions

chapter 13|34 pages

Solitons and So On

chapter 14|64 pages

The Early Universe

chapter 15|76 pages

*An Introduction to String Theory

chapter 16|48 pages

*Gravity and Quantum Mechanics