The Genesis of Feynman Diagrams: 26 (Archimedes) by Adrian Wüthrich PDF

By Adrian Wüthrich

In a close reconstruction of the genesis of Feynman diagrams the writer finds that their improvement used to be consistently pushed by way of the try to unravel primary difficulties in regards to the uninterpretable infinities that arose in quantum in addition to classical theories of electrodynamic phenomena. as a result, as a comparability with the graphical representations that have been in use prior to Feynman diagrams exhibits, the ensuing idea of quantum electrodynamics, that includes Feynman diagrams, differed considerably from past models of the speculation within the method during which the appropriate phenomena have been conceptualized and modelled. the writer strains the improvement of Feynman diagrams from Feynman's "struggle with the Dirac equation" in unpublished manuscripts to the 2 of Freeman Dyson's guides which placed Feynman diagrams right into a box theoretic context. the writer brings to the fore that Feynman and Dyson not just created a strong computational equipment yet, particularly, a brand new conceptual framework during which the uninterpretable infinities that had arisen within the previous type of the speculation should be accurately pointed out and to that end got rid of in a justifiable manner.

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