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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:16:33 EST
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- Subject: Re: Advice Please: What Geometry Course?
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- In article: <1emgjbINNiep@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- jhcooper@ocf.berkeley.edu (John Hutton Cooper) writes:
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- I am a sophomore majoring in physics. I am interested in special relativity,
- and might make the topic my specialty in physics. Special relativity uses
- a lot of non-Euclidean geometry. I am interested in taking a course dealing
- with non-Euclidean geometry at UC Berkeley, and I welcome any course
- suggestions. I will have completed the 1A/1B 50A/50B sequence at the end of
- this semester. Thanks for the advice.
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- My own opinions, etc. John Hutton Cooper
- jhcooper@ocf.Berkeley.EDU
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- I can give an advice about standard textbooks used to teach
- Theoretical Physicists in the former USSR.
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- A. The fundamentals (and hopefully all you need if you are an average
- theoretician not specializing in relativity) you'll find in L.D.Landau
- & YE.M.Lifshits _Field Theory_ (a lot of Engl translations are available)
- It's a 2nd vol of their Course of Theoretical Physics. Maybe you'll
- find reading this course difficult for the first time but when you
- understand their style you'll see that it is worth reading. The first
- 3 volumes and the fifth one (_Mechanics_, _Field Theory_, _Quantum
- Mecdhanics_ & _Statistical Physics, Pt 1_) are brilliant and any
- theoretician must read them
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- B. There is a book by Dubrovin, Novikov & Fomenko _Modern Geometry_. It
- seems it was translated in Engl. Try also to locate other works by
- Fomenko. He is a good paedagog. Besides his drawings are excellent. A
- good half of _Modern Geometry_ is devoted to relativistic geometry
- and this book is a very good intro for a physicist specializing in
- relativity
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- Good luck
-
- -Dr. Boris Veytsman
-