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Re:Can Foundational Physics Be Saved? by orbifold on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:43AM (#18692699)
The unfortunate truth is that even among good theoretical physicists there are few who would be able to teach such a course. The main reason is that a mathematical description of some of these things is still scattered in the research literature. The best attempt that I am aware of is the special year at Princeton in the 90s it produces a fantastic two volume collection of lectures “quantum fields and strings: a course for mathematicians”. Weinberg’s three part book on QFT is also pretty nice.
Re:Can Foundational Physics Be Saved? by Maro on Sunday December 16, 2018 @10:21AM (#18693412)
I (tried to) used Vol. 1 and 2 of Weinberg for QFT courses back 12 years ago, I don't agree that they're good in the sense of being clear / not handwavy.