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The ways of nature; geometry classical physics in Galilean and Minkowskispacetimes; general relativity and gravitation; quantum theory; secondquantization and quantum field theory; relativistic wave equations and fieldtheories; forces, connections and gauge fields; interacting relativisticfield theories; equilibrium statistical mechanics; phase transitions; unifiedtheories of the fundamental interactions; the early universe; a conductedgrand tour of the fundamental theories which shape our modern understandingof the physical world; this book covers the central themes of spacetimegeometry and the general-relativistic account of gravity; quantum mechanicsand quantum field theory; gauge theories and the fundamental forces ofnature, statistical mechanics and the theory of phase traditions.