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Sidney Coleman (1937-2007) earned his doctorate at Caltech under
Murray Gell-Mann. Before completing his thesis, he was hired by
Harvard and remained there his entire career. A celebrated particle
theorist, he is perhaps best known for his brilliant lectures,
given at Harvard and in a series of summer school courses at Erice,
Sicily. Three times in the 1960s he taught a graduate course on
Special and General Relativity; this book is based on lecture notes
taken by three of his students and compiled by the Editors.
Renowned physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson is famous for
his work in quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons policy and bold
visions for the future of humanity. In the 1940s, he was
responsible for demonstrating the equivalence of the two
formulations of quantum electrodynamics - Richard Feynman's
diagrammatic path integral formulation and the variational methods
developed by Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonoga - showing the
mathematical consistency of QED.This invaluable volume comprises
the legendary lectures on quantum electrodynamics first given by
Dyson at Cornell University in 1951. The late theorist Edwin
Thompson Jaynes once remarked, "For a generation of physicists they
were the happy medium: clearer and better motivated than Feynman,
and getting to the point faster than Schwinger".This edition has
been printed on the 60th anniversary of the Cornell lectures, and
includes a foreword by science historian David Kaiser, as well as
notes from Dyson's lectures at the Les Houches Summer School of
Theoretical Physics in 1954. The Les Houches lectures, described as
a supplement to the original Cornell notes, provide a more detailed
look at field theory, a careful and rigorous derivation of Fermi's
Golden Rule, and a masterful treatment of renormalization and
Ward's Identity.Future generations of physicists are bound to read
these lectures with pleasure, benefiting from the lucid style that
is so characteristic of Dyson's exposition.
Renowned physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson is famous for
his work in quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons policy and bold
visions for the future of humanity. In the 1940s, he was
responsible for demonstrating the equivalence of the two
formulations of quantum electrodynamics - Richard Feynman's
diagrammatic path integral formulation and the variational methods
developed by Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonoga - showing the
mathematical consistency of QED.This invaluable volume comprises
the legendary lectures on quantum electrodynamics first given by
Dyson at Cornell University in 1951. The late theorist Edwin
Thompson Jaynes once remarked, "For a generation of physicists they
were the happy medium: clearer and better motivated than Feynman,
and getting to the point faster than Schwinger".This edition has
been printed on the 60th anniversary of the Cornell lectures, and
includes a foreword by science historian David Kaiser, as well as
notes from Dyson's lectures at the Les Houches Summer School of
Theoretical Physics in 1954. The Les Houches lectures, described as
a supplement to the original Cornell notes, provide a more detailed
look at field theory, a careful and rigorous derivation of Fermi's
Golden Rule, and a masterful treatment of renormalization and
Ward's Identity.Future generations of physicists are bound to read
these lectures with pleasure, benefiting from the lucid style that
is so characteristic of Dyson's exposition.
'Sidney Coleman was the master teacher of quantum field theory. All
of us who knew him became his students and disciples. SidneyaEURO
(TM)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.
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