[share_ebook] A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

Product Details

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 10, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198520743
• ISBN-13: 978-0198520740

Review
Aiming at graduate students, this novel textbook on the theory of quantum fields differs from any other existing books on the same subject since it focuses on the generality of its methods and ideas rather than on its power as a calculational tool. Gert Roepstorff, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol 1078, 2006 The author gives a nice conceptual discussion of divergences in loop amplitudes, the need to renormalize, and how both renormalization group...he manages to convey the main ideas without getting lost in technical details. Physics Today All in all, Maggiore's approach is precisely the one that should be taken in an undergraduate course: Introduce the "big" ideas and leave the computational and thornier technical details for subsequent courses. Physics Today --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 

Review

"Maggiore has compiled and systematized notes for his two-semester advanced undergraduate course introducing quantum field theoryHe highlights the power and variety of the theory's methods and ideas, and how they can be applied to domains as different as particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter, statistical mechanics, and critical phenomena."--SciTech Book News