Readership: Graduate students and researchers in mathematical physics. Reseachers in field theory, representation theory, theory of knots.
N. M. J. Woodhouse, Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Oxford; and Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford
"... an attractive presentation of a dynamic subject." - Mathematical Reviews
1: Symplectic geometry 2: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics 3: Symmetry 4: Hamilton-Jacobi theory 5: Complex polarization 6: Elementary relativistic systems 7: Classical fields 8: Prequantization 9: Quantization 10: The metaplectic correction Appendix Notes References Index of notation Index