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1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Foreword M. Shifman; General acknowledgments; Additional acknowledgments; List of contributors; CONTENTS; Part I; From Berezin Integral to Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism: A Mathematical Physicist's Point of View A ndrei Los ev; Felix Aleksandrovich Berezin: A Brief Scientific Biography Robert Minlos; Part II; On a envie de parler ... Natalie Berezin; The Last Journey. Remembering F.A. Berezin Elena Karpel; Remembering Alik Berezin Victor Maslov; On Berezin Misha Shubin; My Recollections on Berezin Anatoly Vershik; About Alik Berezin and Some of His Works. Ten Years Later 161 Anatoly Vershik |
Summary |
Felix Berezin was an outstanding Soviet mathematician who in the 1960s and 70s was the driving force behind the emergence of the branch of mathematics now known as supermathematics. The integral over the anticommuting Grassmann variables that he introduced in the 1960s laid the foundation for the path integral formulation of quantum field theory with fermions, the heart of modern supersymmetric field theories and superstrings. The Berezin integral is named for him, as is the closely related construction of the Berezinian, which may be regarded as the superanalog of the determinant. This book f |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Berezin, F. A. (Feliks Aleksandrovich)
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Berezin, F. A. (Feliks Aleksandrovich) fast |
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Mathematicians -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography
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Supersymmetry.
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MATHEMATICS -- History & Philosophy.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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Mathematicians
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Supersymmetry
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Russia (Federation)
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Shifman, Mikhail A.
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ISBN |
9789812770486 |
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9812770488 |
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1281121460 |
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9781281121462 |
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