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"...because of its wide range in topics, it becomes extremely handy as a 'reference manual'...Kaku's book covers most of the 'hot topics' from the period 1985 through 1996 in a concise but still quite complete way, it fulfills this task in a superb way." Physicalia

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String theory continues to progress at an astonishing rate, and this book brings the reader up to date with the latest developments and the most active areas of research in the field. Building on the foundations laid in his Introduction to Superstrings and M Theory, Professor Kaku discusses such topics as the classification of conformal string theories, knot theory, the Yang-Baxter relation, quantum groups, and the insights into 11-dimensional strings recently obtained from M-theory. New chapters discuss such topics as Seiberg- Witten theory, M theory and duality., and D-branes. Several chapters review the fundamentals of string theory, making the presentation of the material self-contained while keeping overlap with the earlier book to a minimum. This book conveys the vitality of the current research and places readers at its forefront.

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During this century, two great physical theories have emerged. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonpolynomial action, light cone theory, first quantized action, nonpolynomial theory, supergauge theory, open string field theory, free electric phase, braiding operator, free field construction, generalized skein relations, nonperturbative region, quantum moduli space, classical moduli space, free magnetic phase, multimatrix models, picture changing operator, modular invariant combinations, conformal matter, supermembrane action, unitary minimal series, rational conformal field theories, heterotic string compactified, string susceptibility, coset method, new knot polynomials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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