Lectures Of Sidney Coleman On Quantum Field Theory: Foreword By David Kaiser Paperback – 28 December 2018

Don't read this review, read the book.Personally, I have had my issues with QFT books and lecture notes. No book has done for me what this one has done. Things are presented from the ground-up in a very very simple and self consistent manner.I haven't completed it so I can't say if additional stuff will be required for the more modern part or not. But from what I have read till now the Editors have done an excellent job of commenting necessary stuff whenever required so I am pretty sure that if something is outdated then either it has been replaced or enough references have been provided by pointing out exactly what you need.In Short : Other books teach you to calculate stuff this one makes you learn about the actual QFT and how you can develop a theory. I doubt if anything will come closer to an ideal book for the foreseeable future, at least for the content presented.

The media could not be loaded.  This is one of the best book in quantum field theory and its the best book to begin this course with. Explanations are similar to Feyman... so its 🔥As mentioned by Howard Georgi " It may seem strange to refer to a book on Quantum field theory as FUN "

Recebi hoje. É um livro de excelente impressão e paginação de primeira qualidade.

Like his relativity book, this is choppy and not at a particular level. It was written by others from his notes and I find it so variable and inconsistent in its approach that I am thinking of discarding it.

Buen libro, imprescindible en la librería de todo físico teoríco.Però por el precio que se paga me parece muy mal que llegue con una esquina doblada...

This is the best and most complete reference on QFT I have found to date. Everything is explained in a simple way, no open questions remain . Only renormalization could be explained in a more modern way, for everything else, this book is excellent and up to date. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Coleman was truly a giant in his field.

Edit: Someone requested a picture of the hard copy - so I added it.Sidney Coleman was a theoretical physicist's physicist. This book is an edited transcription of his lectures at Harvard for the QFT course he taught for many years. The video lectures are available on the Harvard web site, but while the audio is fine, the video has degraded to the point where it is almost unwatchable. Hence the value of this book. Also note the book is 1100 pages long and includes far more material than was previously published as transcriptions of his lectures (which often included only the first semester). The editors have done a fantastic job in recreating the lectures. Several sample chapters are available on the publishers web site (and of course Amazon) for the book.I own over 10 QFT books (My favorite is Srednicki). This year I decided to try and finish most of them, and I was in a quandary of where to start. I thought of rereading the classic Bjorken & Drell books, but while they are great at Feynman diagram calculations, they have little on more modern topics including non-Abelian gauge theories. Then Coleman's book (which had been on preorder for quite a while) arrived and solved my dilemma. I am about a quarter of the way through the book, and the lectures are simply wonderful to read. The book is like the Feynman lectures on physics for QFT, not as formal as a textbook, but containing the insight of a genius, and still comprehensible to us mortals.Because these are transcriptions of actual lectures, all of the little details (which make QFT so difficult for many students) are often included in most of the calculations. I have found (at least so far) that this is one of the few QFT books that I can read without pen and paper nearby. And the editors have added footnotes adding explanations and references to other textbooks on particular topics such as Green functions and contour integrals. The book also contains 25 problem sets (each about 4 problems) with detailed solutions (see attached image).Although the lectures are dated at about 1975, they are quite modern (although certain material such as Helicity spinor formalism is not treated, and effective field theory is barely mentioned, and renormalization group treated in only one final chapter). I think because its a little older, certain material is treated in more detail than in the modern QFT books, simply because there is a little less to cover. The Coleman book also follows the strategy (used by Srednicki as well) of starting with scalar fields, then on to spinor fields, and finally spin 1 gauge fields. And Coleman also reviews the necessary group theory.So I highly recommend this book either as a starting book or a complement to one of the more modern QFT books (Srednicki, Peskin & Schroeder, Zee, Schwartz).