QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
by Michael Edward Peskin · first published 1994
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…books. There are high quality (almost standard) books for most subjects. Want to learn Analysis at a Graduate level? Pick one of the popular books Rudin (for example) and work through it. Same goes for Quantum Field Theory (Peskin & Schroeder, Zee, Srednicki,...) and tons of other subjects. The lectures are often only a guided tour through one of those books (at least at the undergraduate and early graduate level). In…
on “The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age” ↗Quantum Field Theory by Peskin and Schroeder. There are many things in that book I could make into a standalone project that could occupy years at a time. Some other picks: The Man in The High Castle by Phil K. Dick. The…
on “Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?” ↗…Halzen and Marten or Griffiths (same author, different book). Either of those will give you a pretty solid understanding of particle physics, including QED. You could supplement that by studying some Quantum Field Theory (QFT). At the moment, Peskin and Schroeder is the classic text. Depending on your interests, you could continue in QFT with P&S. That text probably covers at least 3 terms of graduate QFT. You could…
on “Ask HN: Resources for Physics self-study” ↗This is absolutely the best explanation of virtual particles I have ever seen. I've worked through pages of Quantum Field Theory (I'm literally looking at my copy of Peskin and Schroeder sitting atop Krane right now), expanded and calculated hundreds of Feynman diagrams, written pages about these concepts, and yet I would say this…
on “Virtual Particles: What are they? (2011)” ↗