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Drawing theories apart : the dispersion of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics / David Kaiser

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Author:
Kaiser, David  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 469 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2005
20th century
Contents:
Pedagogy and the institutions of theory -- I: Dispersing the diagrams, 1948-54 -- An introduction in the Poconos -- Freeman Dyson and the postdoc cascade -- International dispersion -- II: Dispersion in form, use, and meaning -- III: Feynman diagrams in and out of field theory, 1955-70 -- Teaching the diagrams in an age of textbooks -- Doodling toward a new "theory" -- "Democratic" diagrams in Berkeley and Princeton -- Paper tools and the theorists' way of life
Topic:
Feynman diagrams  Search this
Physics--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_805507