Drawing theories apart : the dispersion of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics / David Kaiser.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2005.
Descrizione fisica:
XIX, 469 p. : ritr. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface and acknowledgments. Abbreviations. 1. Introduction: Pedagogy and the institutions of theory. Pt. 1. Dispersing the diagrams (1948-54): 2. An introduction in the poconos 3. Freeman Dyson and the postdoc cascade 4. International dispersion. Pt. 2. Dispersion in form, use and meaning: 5. Seeds of dispersion 6. Family resemblances. Pt. 3. Feynman diagrams in and out of field theory (1955-70): 7. Teaching the diagrams in an age of textbooks 8. Doodling toward a new theory 9. Democratic diagrams in Berkeley and Princeton 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
