Lancaster's book sounds extremely promising although I've not seen it yet. Skimming over "Student Friendly QFT" that one looks promising too (although I read that someone said that the author of this book made a bunch of trivial mistakes in something else and is thus dubious about this book)...
I still think that Weinberg would be an awfully tricky place for someone start out learning QFT. I agree with that literature review on that. OTOH, I also think that Zee's QFT is a pretty tricky place to start from as well.
I still think a mix of Srednicki QFT, Schwartz QFT and the Standard...
Calculus makes some parts of physics make a lot more sense and makes some of it much easier than having to try to stick to Alegebra based methods. Even very basic calc that can be very quickly picked up can help.
As far as the book getting poor reviews, I think many here prefer a different...
I think it's a tricky sort of question that has no clear answer.
I guess purely mathematical physicist might be:
1. someone who takes the theories and discoveries of physicists and tries to put it all in truly strictly formal, rigorous mathematical terms
2. someone who tries to look at what...
Yeah I'd suggest that plus Srednicki who uses a lot of toy models and handles intro to QFT differently than many and in a way that I think can make it a bit more exciting and easier to get rather than just diving into perhaps seemingly senseless calculations and stuff as with many of the other...
I think it depends a bit upon the person. Unless I keep actively doing something I tend to forget a lot. Even basic stuff. Although if I go back and glance at it I pick it up again 1000x faster than the first time and sometimes all I need is to glance at the formula and then I remember...
Strictly speaking you don't need any courses. And a lot of academic course in comp sci teach you algorithms well, which is important, but the nitty gritty optimization for game programming and all the deep understanding of C and C++ and the underbelly and all they don't touch at all for the most...
Maybe you can just put aside the other self-study for now and try to take a look at the way Srednicki presents it and also take a look through Feynman's QM and Path Intergrals and Schwartz QFT and Student Friendly QFT and see if that sparks the interest up any?
Ahh, I guess I read that too quickly. He is just trying to study (apparently very advanced level) GR on the side on his own. I guess he is one of the ultra advanced level undergraduate type students. That said, I'm not sure it makes sense to be trying to do so much side study on GR and so on at...
We used Solomons/Fryhle Organic Chemistry. I liked the start of it and the end of it and hated part of the middle. All the this does this with this catalyst and that catalysts instead makes it blah blah eyes glazing over when it came to stuff you needed for some of the tests (the professor gave...
Yeah some state school are at a pretty decent level to put it mildly. When I put on the "local" qualifier I meant to imply some smaller, more no-name, regional type state school and not something well known like Rutgers or Michigan State or UCLA or such, those are another ball game entirely from...