Jonathan Dimock is Professor of Mathematics, SUNY, Buffalo. He has carried out research in various areas of mathematical physics, including constructive quantum field theory, quantum field theory on manifolds, renormalization group methods and string theory.

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Introduction
Part I. Non-relativistic: 1. Mathematical prelude
2. Classical mechanics
3. Quantum mechanics
4. Single particle
5. Many particles
6. Statistical mechanics
Part II. Relativistic: 7. Relativity
8. Scalar particles and fields
9. Electrons and photons
10. Field theory on a manifold
Part III. Probabilistic Methods: 11. Path integrals
12. Fields as random variables
13. A nonlinear field theory
Appendices
References
Index.

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