Drawing Theories Apart The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics 1st Edition by David Kaiser 0226422657 9780226422657

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ISBN 10:  0226422657 

ISBN 13: 9780226422657

Author:  David Kaiser 

Winner of the 2007 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society.   Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics since the middle of the twentieth century. Introduced by the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) soon after World War II as a means of simplifying lengthy calculations in quantum electrodynamics, they soon gained adherents in many branches of the discipline. Yet as new physicists adopted the tiny line drawings, they also adapted the diagrams and introduced their own interpretations. Drawing Theories Apart traces how generations of young theorists learned to frame their research in terms of the diagrams—and how both the diagrams and their users were molded in the process. Drawing on rich archival materials, interviews, and more than five hundred scientific articles from the period, Drawing Theories Apart uses the Feynman diagrams as a means to explore the development of American postwar physics. By focusing on the ways young physicists learned new calculational skills, David Kaiser frames his story around the crafting and stabilizing of the basic tools in the physicist’s kit—thus offering the first book to follow the diagrams once they left Feynman’s hands and entered the physics vernacular.

Drawing Theories Apart The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: Pedagogy and the Institutions of Theory
Part I. Dispersing the Diagrams
Chapter 2. An Introduction in the Poconos
Chapter 3. Freeman Dyson and the Postdoc Cascade
Chapter 4. International Dispersion
Part II. Dispersion in Form, Use, and Meaning
Chapter 5. Seeds of Dispersion
Chapter 6. Family Resemblances
Part III. Feynman Diagrams in and out of Field Theory
Chapter 7. Teaching the Diagrams in an Age of Textbooks
Chapter 8. Doodling toward a New “Theory”
Chapter 9. “Democratic” Diagrams in Berkeley and Princeton
Chapter 10. Paper Tools and the Theorists’ Way of Life

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