Weinberg, Foundations of Modern Physics (2021)

[Demystifier]

Steven Weinberg wrote a book again. Did anyone read it?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1108841767/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[George Jones]

I was unaware of the book, so I have not read it. Now that I am aware, I have ordered it to add to my Weinberg collection.

 

[Haborix]

It looks like a fun book geared towards an unusual audience. I shouldn't buy it, but if it gets a nice comment in this thread, well... maybe I need it.

 

[vanhees71]

It's, I'd say the first, a Weinberg textbook on the undergraduate level. I started to read it and on the one hand I like it, because it's very clear concerning the physics. On the other hand I was a bit disappointed, because it's not of the typical Weinberg style with the ideal mixture between providing historical insight in an introductory chapter but then exposing the physics from a modern state-of-the-art point of view emphasizing the logic of the theory in a deductive way. Here, for my taste, he overemphasizes the historical approach a bit too much, but it's still a very good introductory undergraduate-level text on "modern physics".

 

[Demystifier]

Steven Weinberg died today, at the age of 88.

 

[smodak]

Yesterday I received the book. Awful news about Weinberg.

 

[George Jones]

I received my copy yesterday (depends on choice of time origin). Too busy to really look at it.