Table of Contents

1: Symplectic geometry
2: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics
3: Symmetry
4: Hamilton-Jacobi theory
5: Complex polarization
6: Elementary relativistic systems
7: Classical fields
8: Prequantization
9: Quantization
10: The metaplectic correction
Appendix
Notes
References
Index of notation
Index

About the Author

Dr N. M. J. Woodhouse, Wadham College, Oxford, OX1 3PN.

Reviews

`... an attractive presentation of a dynamic subject.' Mathematical Reviews