Drawing Theories Apart
by David Kaiser · first published 2005
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Focusing on the dispersal of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics, David Kaiser explores how the discipline developed in the United States and how Feynman Diagrams evolved in the physics vernacular.
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A good read on the historical development and use of Feynman diagrams is Drawing Theories Apart The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Theories-Apart-Dispersion-Dia...
on “Why Feynman Diagrams Are So Important” ↗Drawing Theories Apart is an excellent book on Feynman Diagrams. You don't have to be actively involved in nuclear or hep to understand but the material is not for the faint of heart and a decent background in those areas goes…
on “How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics” ↗Anyone interested in diagrams should consider reading "Drawing Theories Apart The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics" at some point. You don't have to be at an expert level (though it certainly helps) to understand the majority of it. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo353430...
on “What Richard Feynman’s PhD Thesis Looks Like: A Video Introduction (2020)” ↗…Other People Think? de Grasse Tyson - Death by Black Hole Hoffman - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers Kaiser - Drawing Theories Apart Kaiser - How the Hippied Saved Physics Macaulay - The Way Things Work Paulos - Innumeracy Sagan…
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite physics sites, documentaries, books?” ↗…as an aid to the calculation of QM results using perturbation methods) within the physics community, but I think it contains lessons for all of us. The work was expanding into a book by David Kaiser: “Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion Of Feynman Diagrams In Postwar Physics” https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002Y5W2X2
on “The Spread of Feynman Diagrams in the USA, Japan, and the USSR (2004) [pdf]” ↗…Kaiser, Kenji Ito and Karl Hall http://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/Kaiser.SpreadingTools.pdf must have been the original source research. edit: Also, there’s a book (by one of the authors of that paper): “Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion Of Feynman Diagrams In Postwar Physics” https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002Y5W2X2
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