Quantum Kinematics And Dynamics (Advanced Book Classics) - Hardcover

Schwinger, Julian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201533545 ISBN 13: 9780201533545

Publisher: Basic Books, 1991

Synopsis

A classic from 1969, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered at the Les Houches Summer School of Theoretical Physics in 1955. The book outlines a general scheme of quantum kinematics and dynamics.

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About the Author

Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) was born in New York City. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 1939. He also received honorary doctorates in science from Purdue, Brandeis, Harvard, and Gustavus Adolphus College. He taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1972 until his death. In 1965, Dr. Schwinger received (with Richard Feynman and Sin Itiro Tomonaga) the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum electrodynamics. A National Research Foundation Fellow (1939-1940) and a Guggenheim Fellow (1970), he was the recipient of many awards, including: the First Einstein Prize Award (1951), the National Medal of Science Award for Physics (1964), and the American Academy of Achievement Award (1987).

Edition details

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0201533545
• ISBN 13: 9780201533545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400