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From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics: A Case for Structural Realism

By Tian Yu Cao

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0521889332, 9780521889339
LCC
QC793.3.Q35 C36 2010
Open Library ID
OL24566457M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1410253 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
320\320
Topic
Mathematics Algebra
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This book examines the conceptual steps that were crucial to the rise of QCD, placing them in historical context against the background of debates that were ongoing between the bootstrap approach and composite modeling, and between mathematical and realistic conceptions of quarks. It explains the origins of QCD in current algebra and its development through high-energy experiments, model-building, mathematical analysis and conceptual synthesis. Addressing a range of complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues in detail, this book will interest graduate students and researchers in physics and in the history and philosophy of science.

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