Walter Greiner: October 1935 - October 2016

[George Jones]

Author and coauthor of an incredibly useful series of physics books.

 

[strangerep]

My "like" of post #1 refers of course to Walter Greiner's series of textbooks, which helped me in many many ways.
His passing is a sad loss.

From his book on "Relativistic Quantum Mechanics", I learned clearly how to manipulate Dirac matrices for the first time.

From his book on "Field Quantization", I was able to understand for the first time what Feynman diagrams really are, and how they arise as terms in a perturbation series.

There are many other examples -- too many to list here.

Perhaps it's now time to re-purchase his entire series of textbooks. They benefited from more frequent updates than many other texts, though at the cost of often-changing page and section numbering.