"An especially intractable breed of problems in physics involves those with very many or an infinite number of degrees…"

"Asymptotic freedom arises as follows. The fundamental interactions of quarks and gluons are modified by “radiative” c…"

"Sometime toward the end of my second year, I started working with Gell-Mann. I went to Gell-Mann and he gave me a pro…"

"You shouldn’t choose a problem on the basis of the tool. You start by thinking about the physics problem, and the com…"

"The first efforts to turn quantum field theory into a rigorous mathematical subject occurred in the 1950s, when Wight…"

"Ken Wilson was one of a very small number of physicists who changed the way we all think, not just about specific phe…"

"Wilson was quick to appreciate the promise of QCD, but he realized that to calculate the theory’s consequences at (re…"

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