A Primer of Analytical Mechanics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319737607)

Franco Strocchi graduated at Pisa University and at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and then has been Research Fellow of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and Lecturer at Pisa University and at Scuola Normale Superiore. Later, he has been Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste (SISSA) and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He is the author of more than one hundreds of papers on theoretical and mathematical physics and of the following books: Elements of Quantum Mechanics of Infinite Systems (World Scientific, 1985); Selected Topics on the General Properties of Quantum Field theory, (World Scientific, 1993); Symmetry Breaking (Springer, 2005, 2008); An Introduction to the Mathematical Structure of Quantum Mechanics (World Scientific, 2005, 2008, 2010); An Introduction to Non-Perturbative Foundations of Quantum Field Theory (Oxford University Press, 2013, 2016); Gauge Invariance and Weyl-polymer Quantization (Springer, 2016).He has been Research Associate and Visiting Professor at Princeton University (USA), Visting Scientist at Cern, Visiting Schroedinger Professor at the University of Vienna.