Synopses & Reviews
Review
'An outstanding book ... Essential for all libraries and probably for most physicists.' Choice
Review
'The reader will find an easy and often delightful path to the understanding of the rather sophisticated concepts.' P. Roman, Mathematical Reviews
Review
'An unqualified success.' S. M. Blinder, Journal of the American Chemical Society
Synopsis
This textbook gives a connected mathematical derivation of the important mathematical results, concentrating on the central ideas without including elaborate detail or unnecessary rigour, and explaining in the simplest terms the symbols and concepts which confront the researcher in solid state, nuclear or high-energy physics.
Table of Contents
Preface; 1. Bosons; 2. Fermions; 3. Perturbation theory; 4. Green functions; 5. Some aspects of the many-body problems; 6. Relativistic formulations; 7. The algebra of symmetry; Index.