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Currently Playing: Introduction to Mathematics of Spinors (from a self-learner)

Parts 1 and 2 (Block Sphere, Pauli Vectors): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOl8EL7H7QI Parts 3 and 4 (Clifford Algebras, Minimal Ideals): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5o0Bc66fik Parts 5, 6 and 7 (Lie Groups/Algebras, Double Covers, Representation Theory): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v87AXrdHAkQ Resources for learning spinors: Introduction to Spinors: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.3824.pdf Spinors and Clifford Algebras: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00502337/document Thesis by Crystal-Ann McKenzie (does the best job at explaining spinors as members of minimal ideals): https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6651&context=etd Video showing all the different types of spinor invariants found in a Lagrangian from QFT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhox3P99Gig Review of the 4 types of spinor indices (covariant, contravariant, covariant-dot, contravariant-dot): https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.697.1657&rep=rep1&type=pdf Books: "Introduction to 2-Spinors in General Relativity" by Peter J. O'Donnell "Introduction to Supersymmetry" by Wiedamann "The Theory of Spinors. The Geometry of Minkowski Spacetime" by Naber, G. L.


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