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Wilson's renormalization group: a paradigmatic shift

History and Philosophy of Physics 2015-06-18 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A personal and subjective recollection, concerning mainly Wilson's lectures delivered over the spring of 1972 at Princeton University (summary of a talk at Cornell University on November 16, 2013 at the occasion of the memorial Kenneth G. Wilson conference).

Cite

@article{arxiv.1402.3437,
  title  = {Wilson's renormalization group: a paradigmatic shift},
  author = {Edouard Brezin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.3437},
  year   = {2015}
}
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