group theory – Mathemafrica http://www.mathemafrica.org All about maths in Africa Mon, 20 Apr 2020 06:44:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 Group Theory (lecture 2) by Robert de Mello Koch http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=13348 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=13348#respond Wed, 08 Feb 2017 12:12:41 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=13348 As promised in the previous post, here is the second lecture by Prof Robert de Mello Koch on Group Theory.

 

 

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…]]> As promised in the previous post, here is the second lecture by Prof Robert de Mello Koch on Group Theory.

 

 

Please comment if you have thoughts or questions from this video.

How clear is this post?
…]]> http://www.mathemafrica.org/?feed=rss2&p=13348 0 Group Theory (lecture 1) by Robert de Mello Koch http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=13344 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=13344#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:58:03 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=13344 Some ten (and change) years ago, the African Summer Theory Institute (ASTI) took place in Cape Town at UCT. This was a course designed for students to give them a taste of a number of topics related to theoretical physics. These lectures were all recorded, and I watched them at the time, never of course thinking for a moment that I would end up lecturing in the same venue a decade or so later. In particular, I remembered that the lectures by Robert de Mello Koch on Group Theory were some of the most pedagogically clear that I had ever seen. Sadly, the old ASTI website seems to be defunct, but the lectures can all be found on YouTube.

I wanted to start posting some of them here and see if people seem enthusiastic about me posting more. It would be great to have some comments on this post to let me know if you would like more of these, or of course if you have any questions or comments about the material itself.…

]]> Some ten (and change) years ago, the African Summer Theory Institute (ASTI) took place in Cape Town at UCT. This was a course designed for students to give them a taste of a number of topics related to theoretical physics. These lectures were all recorded, and I watched them at the time, never of course thinking for a moment that I would end up lecturing in the same venue a decade or so later. In particular, I remembered that the lectures by Robert de Mello Koch on Group Theory were some of the most pedagogically clear that I had ever seen. Sadly, the old ASTI website seems to be defunct, but the lectures can all be found on YouTube.

I wanted to start posting some of them here and see if people seem enthusiastic about me posting more. It would be great to have some comments on this post to let me know if you would like more of these, or of course if you have any questions or comments about the material itself.…

]]> http://www.mathemafrica.org/?feed=rss2&p=13344 4 Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists, by Tony Zee – A review http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=13187 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=13187#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2016 12:39:27 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=13187

I studied group theory for the first time around 15 years ago at the beginning of my PhD. There were six of us in the class, and I found it both a magical, as well as a mysterious subject. We had a great lecturer, but the way that the course was set up, and as a course designed for theoretical physicists, where the tools were more important than the construction of the tools, a lot of ideas were left as mysterious boxes where the right answers were guaranteed so long as the algorithm was correctly followed.

Tony Zee is known for his incredible ability to lead the student on a path from little knowledge, to an intuitive understanding of a topic in a seemingly painless process. His books are not necessarily the most technically rigorous (note that this doesn’t mean that they are wrong, but that the appropriate level of detail is chosen for the new learner such that the overarching ideas aren’t fogged in unnecessarily complication), but they are, in my opinion some of the best texts for taking a learner from nothing, to a working knowledge with which they can perform calculations that I’ve ever come across.…

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I studied group theory for the first time around 15 years ago at the beginning of my PhD. There were six of us in the class, and I found it both a magical, as well as a mysterious subject. We had a great lecturer, but the way that the course was set up, and as a course designed for theoretical physicists, where the tools were more important than the construction of the tools, a lot of ideas were left as mysterious boxes where the right answers were guaranteed so long as the algorithm was correctly followed.

Tony Zee is known for his incredible ability to lead the student on a path from little knowledge, to an intuitive understanding of a topic in a seemingly painless process. His books are not necessarily the most technically rigorous (note that this doesn’t mean that they are wrong, but that the appropriate level of detail is chosen for the new learner such that the overarching ideas aren’t fogged in unnecessarily complication), but they are, in my opinion some of the best texts for taking a learner from nothing, to a working knowledge with which they can perform calculations that I’ve ever come across.…

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