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We are very pleased to introduce our first new book, Path Integrals and Stochastic Processes in Theoretical Physics, by Michio Masujima. Our hardcover edition is of excellent quality, is relatively light, and is easy to read. It is over 800 pages long but the price is only $89 on this website.
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This book is an updated and greatly enlarged version of the author's book Path Integral Quantization and Stochastic Quantization , Springer Tracts on Modern Physics, Vol. 165, Springer-Verlag, 2000. That book is 284 pages long.
Below are two comments from previews of this book.
... a well-explained textbook to the general audience and students who are interested in the path integral and its basic aspects...
... it develops the Path Integral formalism in a systematic and pedagogically useful form from both the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian starting points. Applications are rather clearly developed...

From the back cover:
This book consists of two parts. In the first part the author discusses the path integral quantization of various physical systems, emphasizing the path integral quantization of gauge fields and spontaneous symmetry breaking. Also discussed are anomalies and the connection of path integral formalism with the canonical formalism of quantum theory. The second part is devoted to stochastic methods in theoretical physics. The Hida distribution approach to path integral quantization and Parisi-Wu stochastic quantization are discussed with minimal mathematical prerequisites.
At the end of each chapter, problem sets are provided which illustrate the technical details of the main text or extend the discussion using alternate methods.
This book is intended for use by senior undergraduate students or first year graduate students in science and engineering. It also makes an excellent reference.
Michio Masujima is the author of Path Integral Quantization and Stochastic Quantization Springer Tracts on Modern Physics, Vol. 165, Springer-Verlag, 2000. He also is the author of Applied Mathematical Methods in Theoretical Physics, Wiley-VCH, 2005. Dr. Masujima received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. For many years he was a member of the computational physics group at the NEC Fundamental Research Laboratory. He resides in Tokyo.
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