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  • Preface for instructors

  • Mark Srednicki, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Book:
    Quantum Field Theory
    Published online:
    05 September 2012
    Print publication:
    25 January 2007, pp xv-xix

  • Summary

    On learning that a new text on quantum field theory has appeared, one is surely tempted to respond with Isidor Rabi's famous comment about the muon: “Who ordered that?” After all, many excellent textbooks on quantum field theory are already available. I, for example, would not want to be without my well-worn copies of Quantum Field Theory by Lowell S. Brown (Cambridge 1994), Aspects of Symmetry by Sidney Coleman (Cambridge 1985), Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Michael E. Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder (Westview 1995), Field Theory: A Modern Primer by Pierre Ramond (Addison-Wesley 1990), Fields by Warren Siegel (arXiv.org 2005), The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volumes I, II, and III, by Steven Weinberg (Cambridge 1995), and Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell by my colleague Tony Zee (Princeton 2003), to name just a few of the more recent texts. Nevertheless, despite the excellence of these and other books, I have never followed any of them very closely in my twenty years of on-and-off teaching of a year-long course in relativistic quantum field theory.

    As discussed in the Preface for Students, this book is based on the notion that quantum field theory is most readily learned by starting with the simplest examples and working through their details in a logical fashion. To this end, I have tried to set things up at the very beginning to anticipate the eventual need for renormalization, and not be cavalier about how the fields are normalized and the parameters defined.

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