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Quantum Field Theory

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This is perhaps the ONLY book on QFT which has good pedagogy as essential motivation. Even Peskin-Schroeder does not accomplish this. Everything is explained in all full details without compromise and the problems give the opportunity to learn a lot from the numerous hints provided by the author. The price for this is the limited scope(canonical quantisation is not exposed, nothing on non-abelian gauge, the insistance on path integrals gives a rather one-sided view of the theory), but this is not a defect, it's largely compensated by the quality of the book.

This textbook really puts you through your paces as far a functional integral methods and their applications to QFT go. The only bad bit is that it is 'half-a-book' (in L. Brown's preface) - it doesn't cover non-Abelian gauge theories at all. Excellent for a first course in Quantum Field Theory.

Lowell Brown's QFT text is a nice modern introduction, but be forwarned that things are developed completely, so there is no room to really cover anything beyond QED. Note that the other review on this page (as of 10/24/97) and teh TOC refer to Rhyder's text, not this one.