I'm sorry - I've let this group go dormant, and worse, it's been sending out spam :( Well, I've deleted all the spam accounts (I think), and changed the...
Folks, I have mentioned that in reading RtR I keep stopping in an attempt to learn something about yet one more branch of mathematics. ;-) I have a bunch of...
Good question, Thomas. And the good news is.... http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/02/17/math-for-the-masses/ ...alright! /SB Thomas <krt2054@...> wrote:...
SB, Blog sounds like a good idea. Will it accommodate equations? I have dabbled with LaTeX and I think it has an easy syntax for adding just equations....
Sixteen chapters is a pretty good accomplishment, I'd say! I have no knowledge of tensors but am keen to learn when i get to that point. I've poked around on...
I have read the first 16 chapters, but cannot say that I understood all the math that he introduces. I have been buying books, mostly the Dover publications...
Great, Raj! One of the major reasons i would like to do this is that if we work together, the more we can learn, plus more fun to boot. Safety in numbers! SB ...
Hi, It would be really helpful for folks like me. My background is Mechanical Engineering / Industrial Engineering. I started the book but couldn't go forward...
Thanks, Thomas, that's terrific! I figure I'll need lots of help and will try as well to help out as much as i can. I hope to be in this for the long haul and...
SB, I think that an interesting idea and I will participate. I have gotten a bunch of math books to try and figure out more of what Penrose is writing. (I am...
Hello, like everyone else in this group I'm fascinated by physics and a bit frustrated by popularizations that steer clear of the math. Without the math, i...
Hi everyone! I am new on this RTRfans group. I recently acquired a copy -fresh one spanish version- of Sir Roger Penrose's book TRTR. What can I say? I have...
I haven't had much luck in searching, except for a few isolated suggestions. I see there was a website that was never finished. Has no one compiled a list of...
I am interested in some ongoing discussion regarding RtR. Are there those here who are still engaged with the book or related books? I have just finished...
Hi everyone, I just recently ordered a copy of RTR from Amazon.com and saw the discussion group there that mentioned this site, so I thought I'd join you guys....
Hi everyone! I guess there hasn't been much activity on the list lately. I've been pretty busy myself, not much time to read RTR or anything else. It seems...
Hi! I noticed this question about exercise 15.5 seemed to be outstanding for a while. Let me repost the post from sci.math here (by Knarfian) and give some...
I have an M.Sc. in Maths, mostly differential equations, but some relativity & quantum mechanics. All very rusty, because that was thrity years ago, and I've...
Nice notes on QFT up to Strings: Quantum Field Theory to Strings Mirkovic (links to more) http://www.math.umass.edu/~mirkovic/QFT/QFT/qft.IvansNotes.pdf ...
In the last few days, I have successfully making a start on Quantum Field Theory through A. Zee's "Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell". Those of you who have...
John Baez is a moderately famous physicist and runs one of the more informative physics sites (more or less a text only, super blog): A Chat With Penrose John...
More NGC Links here, including entire books for download: <http://www.math.fsu.edu/~marcolli/NCGindex.html> JOURNAL OF NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY (New!) ·...
... <snip a bunch of GOOD COMMENTS> Thanks for the heads up on NGC in Scientific American!!! ... Or it gets big and Brian Greene or someone makes a PBS special...
... Excellent info. It's on my wish list already. ... I bought it and have it "in the queue" (along with about 20,000 other pages but it is relatively near...
In the recent scientific american, there is a feature about alain connes, the "creator" and head proponent of non-communtitive geometry. Connes and NCG is...
... I've had this book on my shelf for years. Tried again and again to make heads-or-tails of most of it. Felt pretty lost until RTR cam around. I'm now...
Originally, I started this post to mention the first few items found through the excellent PhysicsForums. Then I kept finding more and thought it not worth the...