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Quantum Field Theory
Quantum field theory remains among the most important tools in defining and explaining the microscopic world. Recent years have witnessed a blossoming of developments and applications that extend far beyond the theory's original scope. This comprehensive text offers a balanced treatment, providing students with both a formal presentation and numerous practical examples of calculations.
This two-part approach begins with the standard quantization of electrodynamics, culminating in the perturbative renormalization. The second part comprises functional methods, relativistic bound states, broken symmetries, nonabelian gauge fields, and asymptotic behavior. Appropriate for students and researchers in field theory, particle physics, and related areas, this treatment presupposes a background in quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, and relativity, and it assumes some familiarity with classical calculus, including group theory and complex analysis.
This two-part approach begins with the standard quantization of electrodynamics, culminating in the perturbative renormalization. The second part comprises functional methods, relativistic bound states, broken symmetries, nonabelian gauge fields, and asymptotic behavior. Appropriate for students and researchers in field theory, particle physics, and related areas, this treatment presupposes a background in quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, and relativity, and it assumes some familiarity with classical calculus, including group theory and complex analysis.
752 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1980
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January 19, 2026
Quantum Field Theory is a Dover reprint of a textbook from 1980. The reprint discusses some of the changes in the edition at the beginning of the book. It includes the errata and the page it was found on. Other than that, the book is drawn entirely from the older version. There have been changes in some aspects, one of the authors admits as much in the preface. The field of physics is ever-changing and advancing toward the future. There are some parts of the book that are now obsolete. Chapter XI is an example Zuber points out.
Claude Itzykson and Jean-Bernard Zuber wrote QFT. At the time of the reprint, Itzykson died 10 years earlier. I don't know about Zuber at present, but a lot can happen in 20 years. I am satisfied with the book, even as I struggle to understand the terminology. It is a fruitful point of inquiry.
The book is chock-full of equations. Some are hard to follow.
I enjoyed the book. Thanks for reading my review, and see you next time.
Claude Itzykson and Jean-Bernard Zuber wrote QFT. At the time of the reprint, Itzykson died 10 years earlier. I don't know about Zuber at present, but a lot can happen in 20 years. I am satisfied with the book, even as I struggle to understand the terminology. It is a fruitful point of inquiry.
The book is chock-full of equations. Some are hard to follow.
I enjoyed the book. Thanks for reading my review, and see you next time.
February 5, 2018
A mediocre QFT text ruined by not bothering to fix the errata in a new edition.
Skip it.
Skip it.
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