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Cover: 9789048192274 | The Genesis of Feynman Diagrams | Adrian Wüthrich | Buch | xviii

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Beschreibung

In a detailed reconstruction of the genesis of Feynman diagrams the author reveals that their development was constantly driven by the attempt to resolve fundamental problems concerning the uninterpretable infinities that arose in quantum as well as classical theories of electrodynamic phenomena. Accordingly, as a comparison with the graphical representations that were in use before Feynman diagrams shows, the resulting theory of quantum electrodynamics, featuring Feynman diagrams, differed significantly from earlier versions of the theory in the way in which the relevant phenomena were conceptualized and modelled. The author traces the development of Feynman diagrams from Feynman's "struggle with the Dirac equation" in unpublished manuscripts to the two of Freeman Dyson's publications which put Feynman diagrams into a field theoretic context. The author brings to the fore that Feynman and Dyson not only created a powerful computational device but, above all, a new conceptual framework in which the uninterpretable infinities that had arisen in the old form of the theory could be precisely identified and subsequently removed in a justifiable manner.

Zusammenfassung

Detailed case study showing how the development of an appropriate means of representation often involves fundamental revisions to the content

Historical genesis and philosophical interpretation of one of the most widely used tools in theoretical particle physics

Hitherto unpublished manuscripts by Richard P. Feynman

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents.- Acknowledgements.- 1. Origin, use and interpretation of Feynman diagrams.- 2. Quantum electrodynamics without Feynman diagrams.- 3. Quantum mechanics without a Hamiltonian operator.- 4. The Dirac equation: Feynman's great struggle.- 5. Free propagation and successive scattering.- 6. The held theoretical systematization of Feynman's theory.- 7. The development of a new means of representation.- Appendix A Diagrammatic induction.- Appendix B Synopsis of manuscripts and principal publications.- List of figures.- Bibliography.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Fachbereich:	Astronomie
Genre:	Physik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	210
Inhalt:	xviii 210 S.
ISBN-13:	9789048192274
ISBN-10:	9048192277
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	12756438
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Wüthrich, Adrian
Auflage:	2011 edition
Hersteller:	Springer Netherland Springer Nature Singapore
Maße:	243 x 164 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Adrian Wüthrich
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.10.2010
Gewicht:	0,511 kg

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