文档介绍：ADVANCED
QUANTUM
MECHANICS
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ADVANCED
QUANTUM
MECHANICS
FREEMAN DYSON
TRANSERIBED BY
DAVID DERBES
LABORATORY SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, USA
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Preface
Both Kaiser’s admirable Drawing Theories Apart [8] and Schweber’s mas-
terful QED and the Men Who Made It [7] refer frequently to the famous
lectures on quantum electrodynamics given by Freeman Dyson at Cornell
University in 1951. Two generations ago, graduate students (and their pro-
fessors) wishing to learn the new techniques of QED passed around copies of
Dyson’s Cornell lecture notes, then the best and fullest treatment available.
Textbooks appeared a few years later, . by Jauch & Rohrlich [25] and
Schwe