Author: James T. CushingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521381819
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Analyses what criteria should determine how scientific theories are selected and justified.
Nuclear Science Abstracts
Author: Lectures Of Sidney Coleman On Quantum Field Theory: Foreword By David Kaiser
Author: Bryan Gin-ge ChenPublisher: World Scientific Publishing
ISBN: 9814635529
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1195
Book Description
'Sidney Coleman was the master teacher of quantum field theory. All of us who knew him became his students and disciples. Sidney’s legendary course remains fresh and bracing, because he chose his topics with a sure feel for the essential, and treated them with elegant economy.'Frank WilczekNobel Laureate in Physics 2004Sidney Coleman was a physicist's physicist. He is largely unknown outside of the theoretical physics community, and known only by reputation to the younger generation. He was an unusually effective teacher, famed for his wit, his insight and his encyclopedic knowledge of the field to which he made many important contributions. There are many first-rate quantum field theory books (the venerable Bjorken and Drell, the more modern Itzykson and Zuber, the now-standard Peskin and Schroeder, and the recent Zee), but the immediacy of Prof. Coleman's approach and his ability to present an argument simply without sacrificing rigor makes his book easy to read and ideal for the student. Part of the motivation in producing this book is to pass on the work of this outstanding physicist to later generations, a record of his teaching that he was too busy to leave himself.
Theory Construction and Selection in Modern Physics
Author: James T. CushingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521381819
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Analyses what criteria should determine how scientific theories are selected and justified.
Nuclear Theory Index
Author: Nuclear Science Abstracts
Author: Passion For Physics, A: Essays In Honor Of Geoffrey Chew, Including An Interview With Chew
Author: Carleton DetarPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811219214
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Drawing Theories Apart
Author: David KaiserPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226422658
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Winner of the 2007 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics since the middle of the twentieth century. Introduced by the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) soon after World War II as a means of simplifying lengthy calculations in quantum electrodynamics, they soon gained adherents in many branches of the discipline. Yet as new physicists adopted the tiny line drawings, they also adapted the diagrams and introduced their own interpretations. Drawing Theories Apart traces how generations of young theorists learned to frame their research in terms of the diagrams—and how both the diagrams and their users were molded in the process. Drawing on rich archival materials, interviews, and more than five hundred scientific articles from the period, Drawing Theories Apart uses the Feynman diagrams as a means to explore the development of American postwar physics. By focusing on the ways young physicists learned new calculational skills, David Kaiser frames his story around the crafting and stabilizing of the basic tools in the physicist's kit—thus offering the first book to follow the diagrams once they left Feynman's hands and entered the physics vernacular.
Dispersion Relations
Author: G. R. ScreatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dispersion
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author: ERDA Energy Research Abstracts
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description