String Theory and Fundamental Interactions Gabriele Veneziano and Theoretical Physics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gasperini, Maurizio (Editor), Maharana, Jnan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 737
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Gravitation.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

This volume, dedicated to Prof. Gabriele Veneziano on the occasion of his retirement from CERN, starts as a broad historico-scientific study on the work on string theory and nonperturbative QCD that has been pioneered by Prof. Veneziano in the late 60s and early 70s. It goes on to examine the many r...