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Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David Griffiths, any day! Just pick up this book once and try reading it. Since you have no prior background, this is the book to start with.
The most voted up answer right now has referenced books that are pretty rigorous and dense in content. Griffiths is not a cakewalk, it is just the right amount you can lift in the ...
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Gambini and Pullin sounds like what you were looking for, but the following articles and papers may also be relevant. These are roughly in increasing order of length and difficulty.
Smolin, "Atoms of Space and Time," Scientific American, Jan 2004 (the PDF is easy to find on the web by googling)
Baez, slides from a talk titled "Spin Networks, Spin Foams, ...
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You may have some better luck looking up the phenomenon as counterion condensation. I work in this area, and I have never heard it called Manning condensation (though that is an acceptable name). The original paper (doi) is where I learned how counterion condensation works; it contains a derivation of the relevant integrals, and shows how they diverge under ...
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