This is a collection of scientific papers by Richard Feynman, renowned for their brilliant content and the author's striking style. They are grouped by topic: path integral approach to the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, renormalized quantum electrodynamics, theory of superfluid liquid helium, theory of the Fermi interaction, polarons, gravitation, partons, computer theory, and more. Comments on Feynman's topics are provided by the editor, together with biographical notes and a complete bibliography of Feynman's publications.
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"Brown's commentaries are most helpful and constitute a valuable addition to the collection ..." -- Sam Schweber, Brandeis University
"Feynman's reputation rests on his major contributions to science and such a selection of key papers is a useful reference." -- CERN Courier, 2001
"One cannot fail to be impressed by the range and quality of Feynman's work, in his distinctive and incisive style." -- Contemporary Physics, 2002
"The path-integral variational principle and the influence functional, for example, are nowhere better presented than in Feynman's papers." -- Frank Wilczek, MIT
"This book has an excellent chronological bibliography of Feynman's work ..." -- Choice, Jul 2001
"Feynman's reputation rests on his major contributions to science and such a selection of key papers is a useful reference." -- CERN Courier, 2001
"One cannot fail to be impressed by the range and quality of Feynman's work, in his distinctive and incisive style." -- Contemporary Physics, 2002
"The path-integral variational principle and the influence functional, for example, are nowhere better presented than in Feynman's papers." -- Frank Wilczek, MIT
"This book has an excellent chronological bibliography of Feynman's work ..." -- Choice, Jul 2001
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Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 and grew up in Far Rockaway, New York. At the age of seventeen he entered MIT and in 1939 went to Princeton, then to Los Alamos, where he joined in the effort to build the atomic bomb. Following World War II he joined the physics faculty at Cornell, then went on to Caltech in 1951, where he taught until his death in 1988. He shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965, and served with distinction on the Shuttle Commission in 1986. A commemorative stamp in his name was issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2005.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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great stuff, but unjustifiably expensive,
This review is from: Selected Papers of Richard Feynman: With Commentary (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics) (Hardcover)
Of course anything by Feynman is great, but it's not clear to me that publishers have the right to charge an arm and a leg for a compilation that is essentially just a collection of previously published papers.
You can get all of his important QED publications much more cheaply in Schwinger's "Selected Papers on Quantum Electrodynamics", which also includes gems by Dirac, Fermi, Heinsenberg, Weisskopf, Schwinger, Tomonaga, and Pauli, a total of 34 papers in all. So why is this book so much more expensive than that one? Publisher's greed pure and simple, trying to make bank on a brand name.
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Selected Papers of Richard Feynman,
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This review is from: Selected Papers of Richard Feynman: With Commentary (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics) (Paperback)
The Selected Papers of Richard Feynman should become a fixture on the bookshelf of every physicist ...
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In his final year as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Feynman published with one of his teachers, Manuel S. Vallarta, a Letter to the Editor of the Physical Review on cosmic rays [1]. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primary mesons, fastest hadron, extra antiparticle, radiationless scattering problem, charged momentum, trigger hadron, quark jets, retarded disturbance, rapidity plot, lepton experiments, register atoms, wee partons, retarded field, radiative reaction, diagrams with closed loops, symmetrical statistics, absorber particles, quantizing the gravitational, diffraction dissociation, fast parton, mean transverse momentum, charged partons, constituent subprocess, simulating physics with computers, rapidity plateau Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, California Institute of Technology, Monte Carlo, Phys Rev, Cornell University, Klein Gordon, Professor Wheeler, Standard Model, Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Lecture, Princeton University, Professor Bethe, Oxford University Press, University of Texas, Llewellyn Smith, Modern Phys, Niels Bohr, Professor Jehle, Received June, Received May, Rev Mod, Cambridge University Press, John Wheeler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Jersey New!
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In his final year as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Feynman published with one of his teachers, Manuel S. Vallarta, a Letter to the Editor of the Physical Review on cosmic rays [1]. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primary mesons, fastest hadron, extra antiparticle, radiationless scattering problem, charged momentum, trigger hadron, quark jets, retarded disturbance, rapidity plot, lepton experiments, register atoms, wee partons, retarded field, radiative reaction, diagrams with closed loops, symmetrical statistics, absorber particles, quantizing the gravitational, diffraction dissociation, fast parton, mean transverse momentum, charged partons, constituent subprocess, simulating physics with computers, rapidity plateau Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, California Institute of Technology, Monte Carlo, Phys Rev, Cornell University, Klein Gordon, Professor Wheeler, Standard Model, Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Lecture, Princeton University, Professor Bethe, Oxford University Press, University of Texas, Llewellyn Smith, Modern Phys, Niels Bohr, Professor Jehle, Received June, Received May, Rev Mod, Cambridge University Press, John Wheeler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Jersey New!
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- Quantum Electrodynamics (Advanced Books Classics) by Richard P. Feynman on 8 pages
- The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (International Series of Monographs on Physics) by P. A. M. Dirac on 4 pages
- Particle Physics by Murray Gell-Mann on page 416, page 489, and Back Matter
- Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays, With an Introductory Survey by Niels Bohr on page 35, and page 60
- Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals by Richard P. Feynman on page 738, and Back Matter
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