The first, second, and third editions of this book seem to occur at
ten year intervals. The intent is to keep the book up-to-date.
Many-body theory is a field which continually evolves in time.
Journals only publish new results, conferences only invite speakers
to report new phenomena, and agencies only fund scientists to do
new physics. Today's physics is old hat by tomorrow. Students want
to learn new material, and textbooks must be modified to keep up
with the times. The early chapters in this book teach the
techniques of many-body theory. They are largely unchanged in
format. The later chapters apply the techniques to specific
problems. The third edition increases the number of applications.
New sections have been added, while old sections have been modified
to include recent applications. The previous editions were set in
type using pre-computer technology. No computer file existed of the
prior editions. The publisher scanned the second edition and gave
me a disk with the contents. This scan recorded the words
accurately and scrambled the equations into unintelligible form. So
I retyped the equations using LaTeX. Although tedious, it allowed
me to correct the infinite numbers of typographical errors in the
previous edition. The earlier typesetting methods did not permit
such corrections. The entire book was edited sentence-by sentence.
Most old sections of the book were shortened by editing sentences
and paragraphs."
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