Lectures of Sidney Coleman on Quantum Field Theory

Sidney Coleman was a physicist's physicist. He is largely unknown outside of the theoretical physics community, and known only by reputation to the younger generation. He was an unusually effective teacher, famed for his wit, his insight and his encyclopedic knowledge of the field to which he made many important contributions. There are many first-rate quantum field theory books (the venerable Bjorken and Drell, the more modern Itzykson and Zuber, the now-standard Peskin and Schroeder, and the recent Zee), but the immediacy of Prof. Coleman's approach and his ability to present an argument simply without sacrificing rigor makes his book easy to read and ideal for the student. Part of the motivation in producing this book is to pass on the work of this outstanding physicist to later generations, a record of his teaching that he was too busy to leave himself.

Readership: Graduate students and academics interested in quantum field theory.

• Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics
• Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: An Exploration of the Physical Meaning of Quantum Theory (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
• The Prime Number Conspiracy: The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta (The MIT Press)
• Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta (The MIT Press)
• Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter: An Introduction (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
• Third Thoughts
• Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
• When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
• Computational Physics
• Holographic Quantum Matter (The MIT Press)