Customer Reviews:
 Good, but full of minor errors and typos. October 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As above really, a good introductory book on this complicated area of physics/mathematics but the final editing and quality control leaves a lot to be desired with many errors still in the final product. If you know a bit about university level mathematics and this area of research then you can spot the mistakes fairly easily but a newcomer to this topic may not spot these errors and subsequently may be misled.
Doeswhat it says, if you have the background October 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book really eases you into the strange and difficult field of string theory, but only if you have the background, this is not a popular science book! The background is differentiation, integration, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, a little quantum field theory, and special and general relativity. the books i reccomend to get this background, if you dont have it, are:
1) Engineering mathematics, K.A Stroud (6th edition)
2) Advanced Engineering Mathematics, K.A Stroud (4th revised edition)
3) Mechanics series (1,2,3&4), Douglas Quadling
4) Quantum Mechanics Demystified, David McMahon
5) Quantum Field Theory Demystified, David McMahon
6) Relativity Demystified, David McMahon
Wit the nessecary background this text is perfect to lead to more advanced ones on the subject.
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