Physics from Symmetry by Jakob Schwichtenberg (2015)

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Physics from Symmetry by Jakob Schwichtenberg (2015) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This is a good book. It is rather short, very direct, which is a good thing. At some points it is slightly too direct, but to a large extent it gets it right.
The main goal of the book is to basically to build the Standard Model Lagrangian from only initial symmetry considerations, notably the Poincaré group + internal symmetries.
The book doesn't really show how to extract numbers from that Lagrangian, but perhaps that can be pardoned, do one thing and do it well.

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