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| * One of the best books to get familiar with many of the most important advanced topics in group theory is "Geometrical methods of mathematical physics" by Bernard F. Schutz | * One of the best books to get familiar with many of the most important advanced topics in group theory is "Geometrical methods of mathematical physics" by Bernard F. Schutz | ||
| * Other nice advanced textbooks are: | * Other nice advanced textbooks are: | ||
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| * J. Frank Adams, Lectures on Lie Groups | * J. Frank Adams, Lectures on Lie Groups | ||
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| - | Consider two descriptions of the same phenomenon: (1) Space is homogeneousand isotropic. (2) Space is invariant under translations and rotations of coor-dinates. Statements in the logical form of (1) were exclusive in pre-twentiethcentury physics. Statements in the form -of (2) dominate twentieth centuryphysics; quantum mechanics contains various representations of the same phy-sical state and rules for transforming among them. Description (1) appearsclean; it describes nature without explicit conventional and experientialnotions. Description (2) is all contaminated; it invokes conventional coordi-nates and intellectual transformations of the coordinates. The coordinates areusually interpreted as perspectives of observations; so they are somehowrelated to human subjects. However, physicists agree that (2) is more objective,for it uncovers the hidden presuppositions of (1) and neutralizes their undesir-able effects. They retrofit the conceptual structure embodied in (2) into classi-cal mechanics to make it more satisfactory. The statement (1) is often interpreted in a framework of things; (2) can beinterpreted in the framework of objects. The object framework includes thething framework as a substructure and further conveys the epistemological ideathat the things are knowable through observations and yet independent ofobservations. The two frameworks exemplify two different views of the world | + | |
| - | <cite>From "How is Quantum Field Theory possible" by Auyang</cite> | + | |
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| * and for the mathematical details see [[http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~cap/files/wisser.pdf|this article]]. | * and for the mathematical details see [[http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~cap/files/wisser.pdf|this article]]. | ||
| - | On the left-hand side, some of the most important groups that are used in physics are shown. Most of them are important in the context of [[theories:speculative_theories:grand_unified_theories|grand unified theories]]. The full classification is shown here: | + | On the left-hand side, some of the most important groups that are used in physics are shown. Most of them are important in the context of [[models:speculative_models:grand_unified_theories|grand unified theories]]. The full classification is shown here: |
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