TY - BOOK AU - Zwiebach Barton TI - First course in string theory SN - 978-0-521-88032-9 U1 - 530.14 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge PB - CUP KW - String models KW - String theory N2 - The first part deals with basic ideas, reviewing special relativity and electromagnetism while introducing the concept of extra dimensions. D-branes and the classical dynamics of relativistic strings are discussed next, and the quantization of open and c ER -