Chapter 6. Family Resemblances

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations xvii
5. Chapter 1 . Introduction: Pedagogy and the Institutions of Theory 1
6. Part I. Dispersing the Diagrams, 1948–54
7. Chapter 2. An Introduction in the Poconos 27
8. Chapter 3. Freeman Dyson and the Postdoc Cascade 60
9. Chapter 4. International Dispersion 112
10. Part II. Dispersion in Form, Use, and Meaning
11. Chapter 5. The Seeds of Dispersion 173
12. Chapter 6. Family Resemblances 208
13. Part III. Feynman Diagrams in and out of Field Theory, 1955–70
14. Chapter 7. Teaching the Diagrams in an Age of Textbooks 253
15. Chapter 8. Doodling toward a New “Theory” 280
16. Chapter 9. “Democratic” Diagrams in Berkeley and Princeton 318
17. Chapter 10. Paper Tools and the Theorists’ Way of Life 356
18. Appendix A. Feynman Diagrams in the Physical Review, 1949–54 389
19. Appendix B. Feynman Diagrams in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1950–54 395
20. Appendix C. Feynman Diagrams in Progress of Theoretical Physics, 1949–54 397
21. Appendix D. Feynman Diagrams in Soryȗshi-ron Kenkyȗ, 1949–52 402
22. Appendix E. Feynman Diagrams in Zhurnal eksperimental’noi i teoreticheskoi fiziki, 1952–59 406
23. Appendix F. Feynman Diagrams in Other Journals, 1950–54 415
24. Interviews 419
25. Bibliography 421
26. Index 461