What's your opinion about this book?

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In summary, the conversation discusses different books on Quantum Field Theory and their merits. The person recommends the book by Ryder as one of their favorites and mentions its easy derivation of the Klein Gordon Equation. They also mention other good books from their time, before the release of newer books by Peskin&Schroeder and Weinberg. Nowadays, they recommend the book by M. D. Schwartz as a good introduction to QFT and the Standard Model.
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Tio Barnabe
What's your opinion about the book on Quantum Field Theory by Ryder?
 
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Demystifier said:
It's one of my favored QFT books.
Had never seen such a easily and quickly derivation of the Klein Gordon Equation as he does
 
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It's a very good book. I used it to learn QFT. In parallel I read Bailin&Love, Gauge theories, which uses a path-integral-only approach. It's also very good. Note that this was in a time before there were Peskin&Schroeder (which I don't recommend to the beginner due to the many typos and the few but severe conceptual problems) and before Weinberg's three volumes. Volume 1 just came out a little later, and it was a revelation for me, but I think, I'd have had a hard time to understand it without my study of the more introductory books metioned above.

Nowadays I recommend

M. D. Schwartz, QFT and the Standard Model, Cam. Uni Press (2014)
 
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Always good to know the opinion of a person with so many years working in the field!
 

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