Quantum Field Theory: Perspective and Prospective (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Preface. List of Participants. Correlation Functions through Variational Methods; R. Balian. Reader's Guide to String Duality and Matrix Theory; T. Banks. An Introduction to Equivariant Cohomology; R. Bott. Hopf Algebras, Renormalization and Noncommutative Geometry; A. Connes, D. Kreimer. The Peierls Bracket; B. DeWitt. Gauge Theory without Ghosts and Quantum Gravity without Ghosts; B. DeWitt, C. Molina-Paris. Quantized Branes and Symmetries of String Theory; L. Dolan. Instructive History of the Quantum Inverse Scattering Method; L. Faddeev. The Electron is Inexhaustible; J. Frohlich. Exact Solution of Random Tiling Models; B. Nienhuis. Dimensionally Reduced Chern-Simons Terms and their solitons; R. Jackiw, So-Young Pi. BPS Branes in Supergravity; K. Stelle. Selected Topics in Perturbative Field Theory: Renormalization, Differential Algebras; R. Stora. Lectures on Random Matrices and Hall's Fluids; A. Zee. Renormalization and Renormalization Group: From the Discovery of UV Divergences to the Concept of Effective Field Theories; J. Zinn-Justin. Les Houches 1970: List of participants. Les Houches 1975: List of participants. Index.