Review by Choice Review
Various scientific disciplines feature the interaction of a characteristic conceptual framework with a heavy arsenal of mathematical tools. For students of such disciplines, the burden of learning the relevant mathematics can well absorb the bulk of their time. This raises the possibility of books that might efficiently explain just the rest of the subject to readers who come with the mathematics already in hand. Indeed there already exists a very small genre of such works, including J.W.S. Cassels's classic Economics for Mathematicians (1981); R.K. Sachs and H. Wu's General Relativity for Mathematicians (1977); and A. Sudbery's Quantum Mechanics and the Particles of Nature: An Outline for Mathematicians (CH, Apr'87). In this case, however, Ticciati (Maharishi Univ. of Management) actually seems to address the dedicated student of physics searching for and prepared to handle more than the usual level of rigor. Mathematicians attracted by the title will, at best, find more palatable notation than usual but too little help with the physical intuition or the experimental framework. Indeed, the few diagrams one finds tend to illustrate the mathematical abstractions rather than the physical concepts. A good and unique book, despite the misleading title; primarily for graduate students. D. V. Feldman; University of New Hampshire
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