Quantum mechanics and path integrals
by Richard Phillips Feynman · first published 1965
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"From astrophysics to condensed matter theory, nearly all of modern physics employs the path integral technique. In this presentation, the developer of path integrals and one of the best-known scientists of all time, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman, presents unique insights into this method and its applications. Avoiding dense, complicated descriptions, Feynman articulates his celebrated theory in a clear, concise manner, maintaining a perfect balance between mathematics and physics. This emended edition of the original 1965 publication corrects hundreds of typographical error
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Feynman's "Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals" is about $18 on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mechanics-Path-Integrals-Emend... That is a serious graduate level book - written in his own style.
on “Feynman’s Derivation of the Schrödinger Equation” ↗…[mid-level-ish], Cohen-Tannoudji, or Sakurai); Ballentine because it's new (relatively... 1998), and Dirac because it's old and it's what a lot of the mid-to-late 20th-century physics giants started from. Feynman's Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals is also a no-brainer because it's been republished and it's now a $12 Dover edition.
on “My wife's and my holiday weekend project: A database of intro books” ↗…Lectures on Quantum Mechanics Eddington - Space, Time, and Gravitation Feynman - Feynman's Thesis Feynman and Hibbs - Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals Fermi - Thermodynamics Gattringer & Lang - Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice Goldstein - Classical Mechanics…
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite physics sites, documentaries, books?” ↗…Found full of BS, did not finish: - Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power Textbooks: - order of 10^3 pages of Open University textbooks - Klauber, Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory - Feynman & Hibbs, Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals - Wald, General Relativity (5 chapters) - Peskin & Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (5 chapters) Not as bad as I felt before making the list, but underwhelming in terms of quantity.…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗I'm actually not sure, off the top of my head, but I think it's from his book "Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals"; he also used it in lectures IIRC.
on “Physicists demonstrate new way to violate local causality” ↗Feynman wrote at least one book aimed at the graduate level, “Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals”: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mechanics-Path-Integrals-Emen... Haven’t really read it so don’t know if its lucidity matches his undergraduate series.
on “Lev Landau's “Theoretical Minimum”” ↗Pretty unfair that the "Emended Edition" of Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals gets the top spot. Daniel Styer really lucked out on getting the editor gig for that...
on “Richard Feynman profile in Google Scholar Citations” ↗