An American Physics Student in England has written a nice review of books and lecture notes on Quantum Field Theory for beginners.
I’ve been patiently(*) studying Zee’s book for some time now (it’s been a while since I last opened a page of it, though). Sigh. It seems I am an eternal beginner… But that is all right: the important thing is keep moving (forward). I have so many interests that distract me. But I hope this year I can find more discipline in me — and hence, more time for so many interesting books out there.
(*) That means: making all exercises and thinking about them… Yet, I don’t believe I’ll get Peskin and Schroeder this year yet, although I’d like to.
Ref.: [Zee]
Edited: BTW, it seems I cannot get some factors of right. For instance, I get it in the denominator instead of the nominator in the derivations of page 11; I get a
in equation (20) on page 15, and etc etc. Not important, but I get annoyed not to know where my mistakes are…
Ah! Factors of (2pi) on page 11… I think you might be happy to have Zee’s errata handy: http://www.itp.ucsb.edu/~zee/nuts.html
Best wishes,
Flip
Hi Flip,
Thanks, that will be useful!
Best,
Christine
Ha. I just looked at page 11, worked out the integral by completing the square, and came back to the comments to tell you you were right… but I see I should have read the comments first!
Oh, and nice new blog. Shiny.
As long as I’m posting, let me try some TeX:
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Since you have TeX, is there some way to let people preview comments before posting them? Lets people (like me) clean up there own messes sometimes.
Hi Garrett,
Thanks!
I still have to figure out how to implement TeX for the comments. For now, it’s not working…
Best,
Christine