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Title: Spinors in Physics (Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics) by Jean Hladik, J. Michael Cole, H. E. Stanley ISBN: 0-387-98647-2 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $56.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Good introduction to spinors & related group theory
Comment: I've browsed through a number of books looking for a good, approachable, understandable, etc. introduction to spinors and their use in physics. This book is it. It does have an unfortunately large number of misprints/typos, but if you actually READ the material, make an attempt to understand it, and work out the examples and derivations of equations in the text, then you know where the mistakes are. I have an errata sheet a mile long that I intend to send to the publisher!

The book also covers, in a very understandable way, some introductory material on Lie groups and Lie algebras.

I would have given 5 stars but for the large number of typos. Still, I would highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the use of spinors in physics.

The contents are:

I Spinors in Three-Dimensional Space 1. Two-Component Spinor Geometry 2. Spinors and SU(2) Group Representations 3. Spinor Representation of SO(3) 4. Pauli Spinors

II Spinors in Four-Dimensional Space 5. The Lorentz Group 6. Representations of the Lorentz Group 7. Dirac Spinors 8. Clifford and Lie Algebras

Appendix: Groups and Their Representations

Rating: 1
Summary: Have Your Pen Ready
Comment: Simply horrible. This book is littered with mistakes. I had bought this hoping to have a more or less complete reference to spinor theory. Instead I now have a book that is more confusing than helpful. If you do not have a good, even if basic, background in spinors do not buy this. Luckily I did and could see this was a poorly done book. I would suggest using Lounesto instead.

Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Introduction To Groups and Advanced Q.M.
Comment: This book is divided into two parts. The first part introduces spinors in 3D and the second in space-time. It is very readable and includes detailed solutions to many problems with an appendix including essential group theory. I strongly recommend this book to be used along with relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum fields.

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