Selected papers of Freeman Dyson with commentary / Freeman Dyson ; with foreword by Elliott H. Lieb.

Author/creator Dyson, Freeman J.
Format Book
Publication InfoProvidence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, ©1996.
Descriptionxii, 601 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleWorks. Selections. 1996
Contents Foreword / Elliott Lieb -- Preface and Commentary / Freeman J. Dyson -- Some Guesses in the Theory of Partitions -- A Theorem on the Densities of Sets of Integers -- The Approximation to Algebraic Numbers by Rationals -- On the Product of Four Non-Homogeneous Linear Forms -- A New Symmetry of Partitions -- Mappings and Symmetries of Partitions -- Fourier Transforms of Distribution Functions -- The Rate of Growth of Functions Defined by Dirichlet Series -- Quaternion Determinants -- A Theorem in Algebraic Topology -- Continuous Functions Defined on Spheres -- Missed Opportunities -- A Walk Through Ramanujan's Garden -- The Radiation Theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman -- The S Matrix in Quantum Electrodynamics -- The Renormalization Method in Question Electrodynamics -- Divergence of Perturbation Theory in Quantum Electrodynamics -- Connection between Local Commutativity and Regularity of Wightman functions -- Integral Representations of Causal Commutators.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Genre/formBerlin (1997)
LCCN 96006211
ISBN0821805614 (acid-free paper)
ISBN9780821805619 (acid-free paper)