The Genesis of Feynman Diagrams

• Main Author: Wüthrich, Adrian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 26
• Subjects: Physics.; Philosophy and science.; Physics, general.; Philosophy of Science.

In a detailed reconstruction of the genesis of Feynman diagrams the author reveals that their development was constantly driven by the attempt to resolve fundamental problems concerning the uninterpretable infinities that arose in quantum as well as classical theories of electrodynamic phenomena. Ac...

Table of Contents:

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Origin, use and interpretation of Feynman diagrams
• 2. Quantum electrodynamics without Feynman diagrams
• 3. Quantum mechanics without a Hamiltonian operator
• 4. The Dirac equation: Feynman’s great struggle
• 5. Free propagation and successive scattering
• 6. The held theoretical systematization of Feynman’s theory
• 7. The development of a new means of representation
• Appendix A Diagrammatic induction
• Appendix B Synopsis of manuscripts and principal publications
• List of figures
• Bibliography.