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This page contains my texts and eventually links to other projects.
This page contains my texts and eventually links to other projects.
Brief Curriculum Vitae (including a list of academic publications)
Brief Curriculum Vitae (including a list of academic publications)
Books written by myself
Books written by myself
Eternal inflation (World Scientific, published commercially in 2009). ISBN 978-981-283-239-9.
Eternal inflation (World Scientific, published commercially in 2009). ISBN 978-981-283-239-9.
Shorter lecture notes, tutorials, and essays
Shorter lecture notes, tutorials, and essays
Other books or shorter texts do not yet have their own page; see the "File cabinet" below for file downloads, or click on the links for PDF files. All these texts are distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License. LaTeX sources available on request if not yet uploaded to the file cabinet (see below).
Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime (lecture notes from a mini-course in Heidelberg, 2006)
Classical mechanics: a minimal standard course (2006)
Quantum mechanics: bits and pieces (2005)
Introduction to asymptotic series (2006)
Perturbation theory for anharmonic oscillators by the Lindstedt-Poincare method (2010)
Why the Dirac delta function cannot be applied to complex arguments (2006)
A simple derivation of the WKB approximation (2005)
A simple approximation for the error function and its inverse (2008)
Computation of some functional determinants using Riemann's zeta function (2006)
Why physics is hard to learn, no matter how much you already know (2004)
Teach yourself touch-typing in two hours (2009)
Work in progress
Work in progress
Archimedes studies OCaml: a book in progress
Archimedes studies temporal logic: a book in progress
A tutorial on join calculus and JoCaml
Other
Other
Contact me
Contact me
Send email to winitzki (at google mail)
The Science of Functional Programming: A tutorial, with examples in Scala. A new book in progress, to be published by lulu.com (ISBN 978-0-359-76877-6) and as a free online book (2019). GNU Free Documentation License (FDL).
Linear algebra via Exterior Products: published by lulu.com (ISBN 9781409294962), also as a free online book (2010). GNU Free Documentation License (FDL).
Advanced Topics in General Relativity: draft lecture notes (2006-2007). GNU Free Documentation License (FDL).
Introduction to quantum field theory in curved spacetime (2004). Early set of lecture notes (written by myself, after lectures by V. F. Mukhanov) is free to download (two-page-per-sheet Postscript, PDF). A thoroughly revised and updated text of these notes was published commercially:V. F. Mukhanov and S. Winitzki, Introduction to quantum fields in gravity, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-86834-1.
Errata available (as of 2009)
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