Field Theory: A Modern Primer (Frontiers in Physics) [Hardcover]

Pierre Ramond (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1994 | ISBN-10: 0201546116 | ISBN-13: 978-0201546118 | Edition: 2 Revised

Presents recent advances of perturbative relativistic field theory in a pedagogical and straightforward way. For graduate students who intend to specialize in high-energy physics.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Pierre Ramond is the Director of the Institute for Fundamental Theory at the University of Florida. He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 600 pages
• Publisher: Perseus Books (Sd); 2 Revised edition (March 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201546116
• ISBN-13: 978-0201546118
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,857,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book to learn Feynman diagrams, May 12, 2000

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Lubos Motl (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Field Theory : A Modern Primer (Frontiers in Physics Series, Vol 74) (Paperback)

A reader can learn how to compute the Green's functions and the scattering amplitudes using Feynman diagrams. The scalar Klein-Gordon field is used as a pedagogical example at the beginning. The philosophy of the path integral is used all over the book. However, the book does not emphasize the philosophy of the Wilson renormalization group and in this sense the primer is not modern. Nevertheless, Pierre Ramond is a pretty famous scientist and you can learn many things from this book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A grad student's viewpoint, March 9, 2006

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Boo Radley - See all my reviews

This review is from: Field Theory : A Modern Primer (Frontiers in Physics Series, Vol 74) (Paperback)

This book, unlike "standard" texts like Peskin & Schroeder, deals more with the formal aspects of field theory, and may not be so useful for the person interested in phenomenology. Wilsonian RG is missing too, but it's a great place for an introduction to gauge theory. The misprints can be annoying, but at the same time keep you on your toes. The presentation is somewhat terse, and to work through a page of this book can be equivalent to working through several pages of another book, say Peskin & Schroeder.