Review of Warren Siegel's Quantum Field Theory Textbook

[med17k]

Has anyone read Warren Siegel textbook on quantum field theory ? What's your opinion about this book?

 

[petergreat]

I've read some chapters of the book. What's your background, especially in quantum mechanics and QFT?

 

[dextercioby]

It's not a textbook. It's a book to read, it's a book to learn from, but not a textbook. It has some valuable insights on some specific issues, but definitely not a course material.

 

[med17k]

I've read some chapters of the book. What's your background, especially in quantum mechanics and QFT?

I am quite familiar with QFT at the level of srednicki's QFT text also I know some general relativity . I self learned these topics by reading books and following derivations but never did any problems in my own so I find it extremely hard to do research on my own.

 

[petergreat]

If you already know QFT, then you can learn from Siegel's book. (it's not readable by someone who has not studied QFT already.)It focuses on advanced formalisms, techniques and tricks. For example, it makes use of twistors and supertwistors from an early stage, before even quantizing the scalar field. It's a great resource if you want to learn about formal aspects of QFT, but if you're more interested in phenomenology such as what happens at the LHC, you probably shouldn't open the book.

 

[med17k]

Thank you , peter