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How To Learn Quantum Field Theory (For Beginners!) - supertrianguloid.com #11

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supertrianguloid commented 2 years ago

https://supertrianguloid.com/how-to-learn-qft/

A review of Quantum Field Theory textbooks, lecture courses and online notes for beginners.This article is aimed at being a review as comprehensive as possib...

derenliu commented 2 years ago

really helpful, thanks. liked the blog. keep up the work.

Canoga commented 7 months ago

Great help for hobbyists like myself! I will try some out and come back, hopefully. So far I was jumping back and forth from QFT books (like Lancaster) back to prerequisite topics. For Complex Analysis I strongly suggest "Visual Complex Analysis" of Needham. For Quantum Mechanics I went with "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" by Griffiths and Schroeter, after the first steps with Susskind's "Quantum Mechanics, The Theoretical Minimum" (a real joy to read). There are good, visual introductions to Fourier Transform on YouTube, I forgot the one I like most, but they are easy to find.

I could not find anything on Lie Groups that wouldn't bore me to death.

But the most serious help nowadays is ChatGPT (Plus). If the text is too dense, ask him "Can you explain..." (in LaTeX - Chatty can teach you - or just a screenshot). If there is a small prerequisite you forgot, ask "Can you dive deeper on the topic of..." or even "Can you explain to me the sense/background/intuition behind it". And there is even more, using the built-in Python interpreter, you can ask him to draw diagrams, or help you write your code to generate and manipulate them. The same is probably true for Mathematica's Wolfram Language, but I was disappointed with it so far.