154. Solutions to problems from Polchinski, String theory

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December 27, 2008

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A rather incredible paper was recently published in ArXiv – Matthew Headrick decided to solve all problems in both volumes of Joe Polchinski’s “String theory” (well, not quite, actually about 80 problems out of 200 ) and publish them as a paper.

I think, actually, the best way (well, definitely better than reading text books ) to learn a topic in theoretical physics is to solve large sets of problems on the subject of the topic Thanks to Matthew, if you chose this path to learn string theory, you have now a guiding light in the darkness

Via Lubos Motl.

Entered Apprentice, Journal club, String theory

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