I am a grad student in pure math, wrapping up a thesis in Lie theory. After years of talking to mathematicians and physicists, I've decided that it's time to get some formal training in physics, particularly in particle physics.
I have no formal training in physics. We're talking only a childish understanding of basic mechanics and bits and pieces of relativity and CFT, I have seen Maxwell's equations once or twice, etc. But I know Riemannian/pseudo-Riemannian geometry, the representation theory of compact and semi-simple Lie groups, some PDE, and so forth. So hopefully the math shouldn't be an issue.
With so little physics training (and hence little physical intuition!) what kind of books do you guys recommend?
