Contents Briefing

As an elementary textbook on quantum theory of fields, this book emphasizes on the basic principles and concepts as well as the basic theories. The main subject includes the QED and its renormalization, the Yang-Mills gauge field and QCD and the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model on the electro-weak interaction. Besides, it offers complete calculations on some elemental processes.

Publisher Profile

Established in 1902, Peking University Press was the very first Chinese university press. Now it is one of the largest academic and educational publishers in China. It publishes more than 1,500 new titles each year, with 3,000 titles in print.

Since its restoration in 1979, the Peking University Press has published over 10,000 sorts of books and been awarded more than 700 prizes of different levels. In 1993, it was honored with the title of "National Excellent Press". In 2005...    more about

Author Profile

Cheng-Shing Wang, professor of physics at Peking University.