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Title: Quantum Electrodynamics (Advanced Book Classics) by Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0-201-36075-6 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: feynmans way
Comment: I think this is a good supplemental book. it's like his course on physics; you cant learn from it alone; but with a canonical text it adds wonderful insight on a subject. His theory of fundamental processes is out of date (way before tau neutrinos, and there are mistakes in parts); so i would avoid that one. this one I find to be about the level of sophistication of his lectures on gravitation, but explaining field theory. Feynman naturally has a slightly more functional approach than other books of this era. I think it's a good book to keep next to something like peskin and schroeder in ones personal library
Rating: 5
Summary: The first great Feynman classic
Comment: This book collects a set of lectures by Feynman on quantum electrodynamics and a few reprints of his papers on the subject.Nowadays it would be a (hard) graduate course. At its time it was written for Feynman's peers. At that time the method developped by him, though he had total control of it, was not complete as far as derivations are concerned. However, each topic was solidly grounded on the basis of specific arguments. This is how things are done. Usually you have a hundred incomplete arguments which, put together, are, so to speak, stronger than a formal demonstration. And, what arguments! What insight this (then) young guy had already!This book is for pleasure! You probably should read it together with some modern text, like Veltman's "Diagrammatica", to get the modern perspective and also to see how little, after all, was changed. A companion book, called "Theory of Fundamental Processes" is also a sterling lecture, for the same reasons. Perhaps even more so.
Rating: 5
Summary: Question
Comment: I know two kinds of books on the Quantum Electrodynamics by Richard P. Feynman; "Q.E.D." and this title "Quantum Electrodynamics". Once I owned both. But by my mistake I lost "Quantum Elec...". Rubendoz's review looks like one for "Q.E.D.", a good book for the Physics Student who begins to learn Q.E.D., but also good for the laymen who wants to understand the perspect of the theory.
Now my question: Tell me - since Rubendoz's review confuses me - if this book is a renamed version of the easier - if it is - book, "Q.E.D.", or the formula-prone book, "Quantum Electrodynamics" , to say, the harder book. I wish there were the publisher's review which would make this point clear.
Thanks.
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Title: Statistical Mechanics: A Set of Lectures (Advanced Book Classics) by Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0201360764 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Photon-Hadron Interactions (Advanced Book Classics) by Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0201360748 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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Title: QED by Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0691024170 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Feynman Lectures On Physics (3 Volume Set) by Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0201021153 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1970 List Price(USD): $101.10 |
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Title: Molecular Quantum Electrodynamics by D. P. Craig, T. Thirunamachandran ISBN: 0486402142 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 07 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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