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Statistical Field Theory: Volume 1, From Brownian Motion to Renormalization and Lattice Gauge Theory (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

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i think the first chapter is a b---- to get through, but after i did that i found the entire book either particularly useful or insightful. volume two never motivated it's own purchase.
I read it in frech, so i cant talk about how well things are explained in english, just in case anything was lost in translation, but with something like chapter two on grassman variables i dont think it's such a big deal. to put it succintly chapter 2 makes berezin's book obsolete to me and i feel that way about the whole book.

This book is simply awful.

I couldn't understand a lot of derivations.

Before buying this book I studied the standard course on QFT by Peskin and Schroeder.(I solved 95% of its problems, so I'm not stupid!).

The reason I bought the book by Itzykson and Drouffe was to study some interesting advanced topics in QFT.

I began with Ising model and immediately got stuck.

I read previous reviews on this book. The authors praised it.

I wonder if any of them could proceed from formula 65 to 66?

(first volume)

Did any of them understand the derivation of Szego lemma?

What about Kac determinant?

I found that even original article by Itzykson was written better

and with more care than this book.(!)

Still it's worth buying as the source of references.

That's why one *.