资源描述：
《cao,from current algebra to quantum chromodynamics》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在学术论文-天天文库。
1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankFROMCURRENTALGEBRATOQUANTUMCHROMODYNAMICSACaseforStructuralRealismTheadventofquantumchromodynamics(QCD)intheearly1970swasoneofthemostimportanteventsintwentieth-centuryscience.Thisbookexam-inestheconceptualstepsthatwerecrucialtotheriseof
2、QCD,placingtheminhistoricalcontextagainstthebackgroundofdebatesthatwereongoingbetweenthebootstrapapproachandcompositemodeling,andbetweenmathematicalandrealisticconceptionsofquarks.ItexplainstheoriginsofQCDincurrentalgebraanditsdevelopmentthroughhighenergyexperi-ment
3、s,model-building,mathematicalanalysis,andconceptualsynthesis.Addressingarangeofcomplexphysical,philosophical,andhistoriographicalissuesindetail,thisbookwillinterestgraduatestudentsandresearchersinphysicsandinthehistoryandphilosophyofscience.TianYuCaoistheauthorofCon
4、ceptualDevelopmentsof20thCenturyFieldTheories(1997)andtheeditorofConceptualFoundationsofQuantumFieldTheory(1999),alsopublishedbyCambridgeUniversityPress.FROMCURRENTALGEBRATOQUANTUMCHROMODYNAMICSACaseforStructuralRealismTIANYUCAOBostonUniversity,USACAMBRIDGEUNIVERSIT
5、YPRESSCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi,Dubai,TokyoCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UKPublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYorkwww.cambridge.orgInformationonthistitle:www.camb
6、ridge.org/9780521889339©T.Y.Cao2010Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.Firstpublishedinprintformat20
7、10ISBN139780511900723eBook(EBL)ISBN139780521889339HardbackCambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofurlsforexternalorthirdpartyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,ac
8、curateorappropriate.InmemoryofDia-diaandM-maContentsPrefacepageix1Introduction12Theriseofcurrentalgebra142.1Context142.2Gell-Mann’sproposa
