A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics

The ways of nature; geometry classical physics in Galilean and Minkowski spacetimes; general relativity and gravitation; quantum theory; second quantization and quantum field theory; relativistic wave equations and field theories; forces, connections and gauge fields; interacting relativistic field theories; equilibrium statistical mechanics; phase transitions; unified theories of the fundamental interactions; the early universe; a conducted grand tour of the fundamental theories which shape our modern understanding of the physical world; this book covers the central themes of spacetime geometry and the general-relativistic account of gravity; quantum mechanics and quantum field theory; gauge theories and the fundamental forces of nature, statistical mechanics and the theory of phase traditions.