Course

Introduction (with the participation of Rob Spekkens!) and mathematical prerequisites.

Special Relativity: Spacetime and causal structure, Lorentz transformations, Relativistic particle

Useful functions to use with for loops, more about NumPy, plotting using Matplotlib, curve fitting using SciPy, list of other useful libraries and tools

Basics of Jupyter notebooks, basics of Python, control structures, basics of NumPy 

• Set and SetDelayed
• Test and condition
• Replacement
• List manipulation
• Loops

Divergent series

Relativistic particle, Relativistic field theories, Canonical energy momentum, Action for Maxwell

Saddle-point approximation, Stokes' phenonmenon

Retarded Green's function, From Maxwell to special relativity

Asymptotic series, Stirling's approximation

Maxwell's theory: charge conservation, Maxwell's triumph, potentials, wave equations