Student friendly quantum field theory

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1. sigmoid10Aug 2022
   Another great book at that level is Student friendly Quantum Field Theory by Klauber. Especially if you struggle with the incomplete math treatments in standard books like Peskin & Schroeder, where the first chapter basically assumes you already know all the weird complex contour integrals that you usually only encounter in QFT. If Klauber says "from this easily follows ..." then you can expect to understand it even if you're not yet an expert. Ofc that comes with less depth in total, but there's no point in talking about renormalization if you haven't understood field quantization.
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2. mleventalMay 2019
   you need to understand perturbation theory in the context of qft. that's no small feat but since it's a pretty universally studied grad core subject there's a lot of material. this book was actually suggested to me here

   https://www.amazon.com/Renormalization-Methods-William-David...

   two good (Gentle) senior undergrad books are

   https://www.amazon.com/Student-Friendly-Quantum-Field-Theory...

   https://www.amazon.com/Field-Quantization-Walter-Greiner/dp/...

   and then there's always griffiths

   https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Elementary-Particles-Dav...

   note that you don't need to read this cover to cover if you're not interested in actually doing calculations. you can skim.

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3. yetanotheraccDec 2015
   Absolutely amazing, changed the way I look at the society, will re-read:

   - George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

   Loved:

   - Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns

   - Andy Weir, The Martian

   - Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

   - Greg Egan, Teranesia

   Liked:

   - Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

   - Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three

   - Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Laws

   - Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

   - Jonathan Slack, Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction

   - John Scalzi, Fuzzy Nation (bought the audiobook for Wil Wheaton's narration)

   - Ray Monk, Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center

   - Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

   - David C. Cassidy, Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb

   Found full of BS, did not finish:

   - Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power

   Textbooks:

   - order of 10^3 pages of Open University textbooks

   - Klauber, Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory

   - Feynman & Hibbs, Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals

   - Wald, General Relativity (5 chapters)

   - Peskin & Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (5 chapters)

   Not as bad as I felt before making the list, but underwhelming in terms of quantity. I intend to read a whole lot more in 2016.

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