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008 130918s2014 enka b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a9780199699339 (pbk.)
020 $a019969933X (pbk.)
020 $a9780199699322 (hbk.)
020 $a0199699321 (hbk.)
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050 00 $aQC174.45$b.L36 2014
082 04 $a530.143$223
084 $aPHY 023f$2stub
084 $aUO 4000$2rvk
100 1 $aLancaster, Tom,$eauthor.
245 10 $aQuantum field theory for the gifted amateur /$cTom Lancaster, Department of Physics, University of Durham, Stephen J. Blundell, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.
250 $aFirst Edition.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2014.
300 $axvii, 485 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 467-472) and index.
520 $aQuantum field theory is arguably the most far-reaching and beautiful physical theory ever constructed, with aspects more stringently tested and verified to greater precision than any other theory in physics. Unfortunately, the subject has gained a notorious reputation for difficulty, with forbidding looking mathematics and a peculiar diagrammatic language described in an array of unforgiving, weighty textbooks aimed firmly at aspiring professionals. However, quantum field theory is too important, too beautiful, and too engaging to be restricted to the professionals. This book on quantum field theory is designed to be different. It is written by experimental physicists and aims to provide the interested amateur with a bridge from undergraduate physics to quantum field theory. The imagined reader is a gifted amateur, possessing a curious and adaptable mind, looking to be told an entertaining and intellectually stimulating story, but who will not feel patronised if a few mathematical niceties are spelled out in detail. Using numerous worked examples, diagrams, and careful physically motivated explanations, this book will smooth the path towards understanding the radically different and revolutionary view of the physical world that quantum field theory provides, and which all physicists should have the opportunity to experience.--$cSource other than Library of Congress.
650 0 $aQuantum field theory.
650 0 $aQuantum field theory$vAmateurs' manuals.
650 0 $aQuantum field theory$vProblems, exercises, etc.
655 4 $aLehrbuch.
650 7 $aQuantum field theory.$2fast
655 7 $aHandbooks, manuals, etc.$2fast
655 7 $aProblems, exercises, etc.$2fast
650 07 $aQuantenfeldtheorie.$2gnd
700 1 $aBlundell, Stephen,$d1967-$eauthor.