TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cappelli,Andrea
AU  - Castellani,Elena
AU  - Colomo,Filippo
AU  - Di Vecchia,Paolo
TI  - The Birth of String Theory
SN  - 9780511977725 (ebook)
AV  - QC794.6.S85 B57 2012
U1  - 539.7/258 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - String models
KW  - Duality (Nuclear physics)
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - String theory is currently the best candidate for a unified theory of all forces and all forms of matter in nature. As such, it has become a focal point for physical and philosophical discussions. This unique book explores the history of the theory's early stages of development, as told by its main protagonists. The book journeys from the first version of the theory (the so-called dual resonance model) in the late sixties, as an attempt to describe the physics of strong interactions outside the framework of quantum field theory, to its reinterpretation around the mid-seventies as a quantum theory of gravity unified with the other forces, and its successive developments up to the superstring revolution in 1984. Providing important background information to current debates on the theory, this book is essential reading for students and researchers in physics, as well as historians and philosophers of science
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511977725
ER  -