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9780226422664
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9780226422657
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Winner of the 2007 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics since the middle of the twentieth century. Introduced by the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) soon after World War II as a means of simplifying lengthy calculations in quantum electrodynamics, they soon gained adherents in many branches of the discipline. Yet as new physicists adopted the tiny line drawings, they also adapted the diagrams and introduced their own interpretations. Drawing Theories Apart traces how generations of young t
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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction: Pedagogy and the Institutions of Theory; Part I Dispersing the Diagrams, 1948-54; Chapter 2. An Introduction in the Poconos; Chapter 3. Freeman Dyson and the Postdoc Cascade; Chapter 4. International Dispersion; Part II. Dispersion in Form, Use, and Meaning; Chapter 5. Seeds of Dispersion; Chapter 6. Family Resemblances; Part III. Feynman Diagrams in and out of Field Theory, 1955-70; Chapter 7. Teaching the Diagrams in an Age of Textbooks; Chapter 8. Doodling toward a New "Theory"
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Chapter 9. "Democratic" Diagrams in Berkeley and PrincetonChapter 10. Paper Tools and the Theorists' Way of Life; Appendix A. Feynman Diagrams in the Physical Review, 1949-54; Appendix B. Feynman Diagrams in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1950-54; Appendix C. Feynman Diagrams in Progress of Theoretical Physics, 1949-54; Appendix D. Feynman Diagrams in Soryushi-ron Kenkyu, 1949-52; Appendix E. Feynman Diagrams in Zhurnal eksperimental'noi i teoreticheskoi fiziki, 1952-59; Appendix F. Feynman Diagrams in Other Journals, 1950-54; Interviews; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
9780226422657
Additional Edition:
9780226422664
Additional Edition:
Print version Drawing Theories Apart : The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kaiser, David, 1971 - Drawing theories apart Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005 0226422666
Additional Edition:
0226422674
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Physics
Keywords:
Feynman-Graph
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Rezeption
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Ausbreitung
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Geschichte 1948-1970
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Theoretische Physik
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Methodologie
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Geschichte 1948-1970
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