Feynman diagrams: From complexity to simplicity and back

R Harlander - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
The way from the path integral to Feynman diagrams is sketched. The emphasis is put on
the decrease of complexity in this process, from infinite-dimensional integrals down to the …

[CITATION][C] Diagrammatica: the path to Feynman diagrams

M Veltman, E Ma, J Wudka - 1995 - pubs.aip.org
What is the material world around us made of? The answer depends on whom and when
you ask. A century ago the strongest answer would have come from the chemists. For them …

How do Feynman diagrams work?

JR Brown - Perspectives on Science, 2018 - direct.mit.edu
Feynman diagrams (hereafter FDs) are now iconic. Like pictures of the Bohr atom, everyone
knows they have something important to do with physics. Those who work in quantum field …

[BOOK][B] The genesis of Feynman diagrams

A Wüthrich - 2010 - books.google.com
In a detailed reconstruction of the genesis of Feynman diagrams the author reveals that their
development was constantly driven by the attempt to resolve fundamental problems …

Feynman diagrams: Modeling between physics and mathematics

M Stöltzner - Perspectives on Science, 2018 - direct.mit.edu
The aim of the present paper is to analyze Feynman diagrams within the context of recent
historical and philosophical debates about models in science and against the backdrop of …

Feynman diagrams as models

M Stöltzner - The Mathematical Intelligencer, 2017 - Springer
At the 1948 Pocono conference on quantum physics, the young theoretical physicist Richard
P. Feynman presented a new pictorial way to analyze scattering processes in quantum …

The nature of representation in Feynman diagrams

M Dorato, E Rossanese - Perspectives on Science, 2018 - direct.mit.edu
The aim of the paper is to discuss the alleged representational role of Feynman diagrams
(FDs) in the context of quantum field theory and in particular in quantum electrodynamics …

The development of computational methods for Feynman diagrams

RV Harlander, JP Martinez - The European Physical Journal H, 2024 - Springer
Over the last 70 years, Feynman diagrams have played an essential role in the development
of many theoretical predictions derived from the standard model Lagrangian. In fact, today …

Physics and Feynman's Diagrams: In the hands of a postwar generation, a tool intended to lead quantum electrodynamics out of a decades-long morass helped …

D Kaiser - American Scientist, 2005 - JSTOR
George Gamow, the wisecracking theoretical physicist who helped invent the Big Bang
model of the universe, was fond of explaining what he liked best about his line of work: He …

Feynman diagrams for pedestrians and mathematicians

M Polyak - Graphs and patterns in mathematics and theoretical …, 2005 - books.google.com
1.1. About these lecture notes. For centuries physics was a potent source providing
mathematics with interesting ideas and problems. In the last decades something new started …