# PHY1540H S GENERAL Mathematical Methods in Physics

## Official description

### Topics:

An introduction, aimed at the physicist, to various mathematical methods of use in several areas of physics.

Topics:

- Introduction to group theory I: generalities, discrete groups

- Introduction to group theory II: Lie groups with an emphasis on semisimple groups

- Tensor algebra and exterior calculus on manifolds

- Solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations with Green functions

Textbook
                            Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics by F.W. Byron and R.W.Fuller (Dover, 1992)

course title
PHY1540H S GENERAL
session
winter
group
general course
time and location
MWF 1 MP1115
Course URL
https://www.physics.utor…
instructor

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