From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521889339)

The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This book examines the conceptual steps that were crucial to the rise of QCD, placing them in historical context against the background of debates that were ongoing between the bootstrap approach and composite modeling, and between mathematical and realistic conceptions of quarks. It explains the origins of QCD in current algebra and its development through high-energy experiments, model-building, mathematical analysis and conceptual synthesis. Addressing a range of complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues in detail, this book will interest graduate students and researchers in physics and in the history and philosophy of science.

Author: Tian Yu Cao
ISBN-10: 0521889332
ISBN-13: 9780521889339
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2010
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 293