Is it possible to find a copy of Feynman and Hibbs?

[franznietzsche]

I swear this book does not actually exist. Well, unless I'm willing to spend between $300 and $1200 (no, that's not a typo).

Am I correct in my suspicion that there was only a single printing of the text back in '65? Does anyone actually have a copy?

 

[Karlisbad]

Have you ever Heard about "E-mule" ... ¡¡Yes ..It's free¡¡¡..you can find almost any book there..

 

[Daverz]

I can't imagine that this won't be reprinted. The physics section at any bookstore seems to be about half Feynmaniana these days.

 

[selfAdjoint]

I swear this book does not actually exist. Well, unless I'm willing to spend between $300 and $1200 (no, that's not a typo).

Am I correct in my suspicion that there was only a single printing of the text back in '65? Does anyone actually have a copy?

I do have a copy, and NO! it's not for sale! I had to order it from my local book store (Kroch's and Brentano's in Chicago, long gone) twenty years ago, and it cost me around $60 which I thought an arm and a leg back then. Except as an example of the great man's ipsissima verba it's not very useful. You'd do better with Dyson's early notes, which are now online.

 

[George Jones]

I swear this book does not actually exist. Well, unless I'm willing to spend between $300 and $1200 (no, that's not a typo).

Am I correct in my suspicion that there was only a single printing of the text back in '65? Does anyone actually have a copy?

I just checked on bookfinder.com, and there seem to be quite a few over-priced copies available.

I typed Hibbs into the Author field and path into the title field.

 

[Dr Transport]

I had to photocopy it back in the early '90's when i wnated to get it. It wasn't too usefull and I found other books since then to learn path integration from.

 

[Daverz]

What about the book by Schulman, https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486445283/?tag=pfamazon01-20?

 

[selfAdjoint]

I've used Shulman a couple of times (public library where I used to live had a copy - go figure!). It covers different applications of PI, but I didn't find it a good introduction. I still haven't found anything I like better than Raymond's Field Theory: a Modern Primer, which lives up to its name. It does do a lot of math in the process of explaining, but I think that's an advantage over the "memorize and use" approach of so many other textbooks.

 

[Epicurus]

I have a copy. You can have it for $5,000,000 dollars.

 

[StatMechGuy]

I've actually read Feynman's original paper, and I find it to be a pretty solid introduction to the subject. I was also going to throw out Schulman because it is a very solid book.

I should imagine that Dover would republish Feynman/Hibbs, but they seem to be taking their precious time on it. I would also hope they'd reprint Baym in a few years, but again, that doesn't seem to be happening.

 

[robphy]

Wow, surely someone's joking...
those http://www.google.com/search?q=0070206503" prices are ridiculous! I don't think I paid anywhere near that a while back.

You might try a library
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/cbf65ea7faeb009c.html
or visit a used bookstore near a university.

Here's some errata:
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/FeynmanHibbs/

 

[Daverz]

I would also hope they'd reprint Baym in a few years, but again, that doesn't seem to be happening.

Which Baym? Gordon Baym's Lectures on Quantum Mechanics is still in print.

 

[StatMechGuy]

Which Baym? Gordon Baym's Lectures on Quantum Mechanics is still in print.

For some reason I was under the impression that Gordon Baym's book was out of print. I guess Amazon begs to differ...oh well.

I actually sent an e-mail to Dover Publications asking about Feynman and Hibbs' book. Sending an e-mail through http://store.doverpublications.com/customercarecenter.html asking for this might help move them in the direction of publishing this stuff, which would be nice.

 

[physiker_192]

Well, this is an old topic.

But to give it an update,

Dover seems to be publishing a corrected version (and affordable) of the book and it is due 15.July.2010, apparently the original has many typos/mistakes.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486477223/?tag=pfamazon01-20


The errata by Daniel Styer is available here:
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/FeynmanHibbs/

 

[jtbell]

The Dover edition of Feynman & Hibbs is now in stock at amazon.com, at the price of $13.57. It popped up in Amazon's "recommendations" for me when I visited them just now. It's at the link that physiker_192 posted above.

 

[johnnyies]

umm, since he was willing to offer $1200, maybe he wants the original printing. Anyways, what's so valuable about the first one? Did Richard Feynman sign all of them?

 

[naele]

There's no value to the original, especially given how many typos there are. At any rate, I did buy the new Dover edition since why not it was pretty cheap. You might as well for that price.