Selected papers of Freeman Dyson with commentary / Freeman Dyson ; with foreword by Elliott H. Lieb.
| Author/creator | Dyson, Freeman J. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, ©1996. |
| Description | xii, 601 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Works. 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 note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Berlin (1997) |
| LCCN | 96006211 |
| ISBN | 0821805614 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780821805619 (acid-free paper) |