Selected Topics in Field Quantization: Volume 6 of Pauli Lectures on Physics Volume 6

by Wolfgang Pauli

Book Overview

In the 1950s the distinguished theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli delivered a landmark series of lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. His comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of classical and modern physics was painstakingly recorded not only by his students, but also by a number of collaborators whose carefully edited transcriptions resulted in a remarkable six-volume work.
This volume, the sixth in the series,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486414590
• ISBN13: 9780486414591
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A master teaches the basics of quantum field theory

These are notes taken from the Pauli lectures on field quantization at Zurich, where he taught for many years. They are magnificent in their clarity and succint as only Pauli could be. Basically they explain how to quantize the basic free fields and introduce in a beautiful way the Dyson method of introducing (perturbative) interactions, renormalization comprised. Fine points, like the Gupta-Bleuler method, get a critical and clear treatment. The language is surprisingly modern, with emphasis in vacuum expectation values, kernels, etc. The last chapter treats the Feynman method of path integrals. This must have been one of the very first published reviews of this method: it is done, of course, quite originally. One should read every scrap of paper left by Pauli, a deep and original thinker who expressed himself with unsurpassed clarity, let alone this lovingly produced book.