A Table of Feynman Path Integrals (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics) [Hardcover]

F. Steiner (Author), C. Grosche (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0387571353 | ISBN-13: 978-0387571355 | Publication Date: December 31, 1997

The Handbook of Feynman Path Integrals appears just fifty years after Richard Feynman published his pioneering paper in 1948 entitled "Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics", in which he introduced his new formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of path integrals. The book presents for the first time a comprehensive table of Feynman path integrals together with an extensive list of references; it will serve the reader as a thorough introduction to the theory of path integrals. As a reference book, it is unique in its scope and will be essential for many physicists, chemists and mathematicians working in different areas of research.

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"The book is a compendious handbook for the path integral with a list of almost 1000 references.
...Such a handbook could not have been written up without persistent efforts over years to accumulate the basic data, and the authors may now be destined to keep incessantly supplementing it with further references. Anyway, this book will be useful to the reader who wants to know not only what the path integral is, but also which path integrals can in fact be calculated." Mathematical Reviews, 2000 "This volume provides a comprehensive account of the quantum mechanical path integrals that have been successfully evaluated during the fifty years since R. Feynman published his pioneering papers on the subject. ... This unique handbook will be an indispensable reference for physicists, quantum chemists and mathematicians working on the diverse areas of research where Feynman path integrals are used." Laszlo Feher, Acta Scientiarum Mathematicaru, 2000/66 --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 459 pages
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag (December 31, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387571353
• ISBN-13: 978-0387571355
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,469,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: A Table of Feynman Path Integrals (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics) (Hardcover)

Feynman path integrals are a beautiful discovery by Richard Feynman. But what you may not realise in the textbooks that describe these is that the examples given where an analytic answer is found are very rare.

Which is the virtue of this book. In many situations, the maths of solving the path integral is difficult, when you have nontrivial problems. All the easy stuff has been done. So if you are tackling a problem, it behooves you to first consult this book. If indeed somone has already solved it, you need to know. So that you can use the answer given here. Or if you are doing research, it indicates that you need to look elsewhere for an unsolved problem.