H.A. Kramers Between Tradition and Revolution

by Max Dresden

It is now a little more than 11 years since the idea of writing a personal and scientific biography of H. A. Kramers took hold of me. A few days earlier I had been lecturing, in a course on field theory, on the renormalization proce- dures of relativistic quantum field theory. Since the students had considerable trouble understanding the physical basis of the procedure, at the end of the lecture T explained that renormalization is not an exclusive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461290872
• ISBN13: 9781461290872
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 563 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"