Il piccolo libro delle stringhe

Could not finish In a 150 page book for laymen,you should not be able to get your audience to the point the they can understand sentences like "...D5-branes are exchanged with solitonic 5-branes, and D3-branes are unaffected by the duality..." Actually, you should never write sentences like that. Real Leggi tutto

This book is a mystery. "The Little Book of String Theory" occupies a strange space: not accessible enough to be a true introduction, yet not technical enough to be more than a primer for those with more familiarity with the topic. It is therefore an admirable attempt, with enough successes to invit Leggi tutto

An incredibly well-written book on ST. Makes difficult things look easy via routine use of mind-experiments. I can imagine that for readers with aphantasia this might prove to be a chore, so they might want to skip it altogether. The ones who live to love imagining quirky stuff would benefit from it Leggi tutto

this book had so much potential! too bad the narrative was bogged down by the lengthy analogies and the authors self inserts. any insightful thoughts were buried within the long-winded descriptions of equations, that could have easily been better represented numerically. not a book for me. at least

An introduction to string theory This book starts with a brief introduction to the basic laws of physics, and the search for an ultimate theory to explain the physical reality. When the author starts describing the string theory, things get complicated. The reader must bear in mind that this is not a Leggi tutto

Well, I guess the Gubser method of instruction does not work too well on me. Having finished a beautiful, elegant popular-level explanation of the main competing quantum gravity theory to strings - LQG - I wanted to be fair and look (once again) into what the deal is with those damn strings and wheth Leggi tutto

It was interesting, but it would've been better without so many unnecessary analogies. Especially the ones where the author went on a wild tangent in order to find some excuse to show off about his rock climbing abilities. 'One time, I was rock climbing this really hard mountain, and it was super co Leggi tutto

An inconsistent, confusing and incomplete treatment of a complex subject. Filled with jargon and random detail that will confound most casual readers but stops well short of presenting deeper explanations that would be useful to the more technically inclined.