It's been a year since I blogged and one might understandably have thought the whole enterprise had been given up. To the contrary, I decided that it is far better to spend weeks and months mulling over a subject and then prepare careful notes rather than thinking about things piece meal and then writing up notes. The latter way of doing things I found gave a false finality to the whole affair and produced a questionable notion of progress. The fruits of my labor will be appearing in the coming days, weeks and months on a new website I created at physicalmusings.neocities.org.
I have prepared around 80 pages worth of latex notes on Differential Geometry and about 70 pages of latex notes on group and representation theory. I am yet to start writing up the notes on Quantum Field Theory but I shudder when I think of the task. On the other hand, I am quite happy with how far I have got with the tasks at hand. Understanding QFT is not very easy and the task is compounded by the fact that every author has their own way of not just arranging the material but whatever they consider primary and foundational. The result is that having a number of books on QFT unlike any other subject only served to confuse and perplex. How to learn Quantum Field Theory is a topic that needs to be carefully considered and needs its own blog post.
I have prepared around 80 pages worth of latex notes on Differential Geometry and about 70 pages of latex notes on group and representation theory. I am yet to start writing up the notes on Quantum Field Theory but I shudder when I think of the task. On the other hand, I am quite happy with how far I have got with the tasks at hand. Understanding QFT is not very easy and the task is compounded by the fact that every author has their own way of not just arranging the material but whatever they consider primary and foundational. The result is that having a number of books on QFT unlike any other subject only served to confuse and perplex. How to learn Quantum Field Theory is a topic that needs to be carefully considered and needs its own blog post.
