This monograph addresses the field of theoretical aspects of magnetic monopoles. The author demonstrates the interplay between mathematics and physics, delving into details as necessary and developing many techniques that find applications in modern theoretical physics. This introduction to the basic ideas used for the description and construction of monopoles is also the first coherent presentation of the concept of magnetic monopoles. The book summarizes the present status of the theory and gives an extensive but carefully selected bibliography on the subject.
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From the reviews of the first edition:
"The modern era of the monopolic theory started in 1974 when Hooft and, independently, Polyakov found monopole solutions in quantum field theory . . This . is the subject of the carefully designed book by Shnir. It is written mainly for researchers and advanced students in theoretical physics and is to my knowledge the first coherent presentation of the subject." (Gert Roepstorff, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1084, 2006)
