Memorial Volume for Stanley Mandelstam

<!-- <description> -->Stanley Mandelstam (1928–2016) was one of the most influential and respected particle theorists. Coming as a young chemical engineer from South Africa to study theoretical physics in England, he quickly became a leading physicist in his field. With his deep understanding of quantum field theory, he pioneered the development of the analytic S-matrix theory as well as the path-dependent formulations for quantum gauge theories and for quantum general relativity. They are being actively used for the electroweak theory and having their imprints in lattice gauge theory and loop quantum gravity. Also he elucidated the mechanisms for quark confinement in quantum chromodynamics, constructed non-perturbative bosonization methods in 1+1 dimensions, and proved the perturbative finiteness and β=0 of N=4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory. His work also led to the discovery of dual resonance models, which in turn became superstring theory. He was a leader in these developments, devoting much of his later years to the proof that the theory is perturbatively finite so it can be considered as a contender for the theory of quantum gravity.
He was also a very modest and friendly man, impressing everyone with his sharp intellect as well as his humanity. This volume contains essays written by many of his friends and students, including both detailed reports on his scientific achievements as well as personal reminiscences. Also collected in the volume are some selected reprints of Mandelstam's early seminal papers and abstracts of selected papers representing the full spectrum of his contributions.
<!-- </description> -->Contents:Recollections of Stanley Mandelstam (Geoffrey Chew)Scientific Biography of Stanley Mandelstam: 1955–1980 (Charles B Thorn)Scientific Biography of Stanley Mandelstam: 1981–2016 (Nathan Berkovits)Stanley Mandelstam: Brief Biography and Selected Publications with Commentary (Ling-Lie Chau)Stanley Mandelstam: The Early Years at a 'Most Stimulating Theoretical Group' (Sabine Lee)The Guiding Influence of Stanley Mandelstam, from S-Matrix Theory to String Theory (Peter Goddard)Remembering Stanley: From a Source of Inspiration to a Fair Strong Competitor (G Veneziano)Stanley Mandelstam and Me and Life on the Light-cone (Lars Brink)Reminiscences of Stanley Mandelstam (John H Schwarz)Stanley Mandelstam and My Postdoctoral Years at Berkeley (Steven Frautschi)Reminiscences on Stanley Mandelstam (Korkut Bardakci)Remembering a Gentle Giant of Physics (Charles Sommerfield)Grad School with Stanley Mandelstam (Joseph Polchinski)Remembering a Gentle Giant of Physics (Mary K Gaillard)Mandelstam & NAL (Pierre Ramond)The Influence of Stanley Mandelstam (Michael B Green)My Interaction with Stanley Mandelstam (Paolo Di Vecchia)My Advisor Stanley (Sang-Jin Sin)Stanley Mandelstam My Graduate Supervisor (Arjun Berera)Reprints and Abstracts of Selected Publications:The Mandelstam Representations in the Mandelstam Variables for S-Matrices:Determination of the Pion-Nucleon Scattering Amplitude from Dispersion Relations and Unitarity. General TheoryAnalytic Properties of Transition Amplitudes in Perturbation TheoryTwo-Dimensional Representations of Scattering Amplitudes and Their ApplicationsThe S-Matrix Approach:Theory of Low-Energy Pion–Pion InteractionsDispersion Relations in Strong-Coupling PhysicsThe Mandelstam Path-Field Formulation for Quantum Gauge Theories and Feynman Rules:Quantum Electrodynamics Without PotentialsFeynman Rules for Electromagnetic and Yang–Mills Fields from the Gauge Independent Field Theoretic FormalismThe Mandelstam Path-Field Formulation for Quantum General Relativity and the Feynman Rules:Quantization of the Gravitational FieldFeynman Rules for the Gravitational Field from the Coordinate Independent Field Theoretic FormalismThe Precursor for the Discovery of String Theory:Dynamics Based on Rising Regge TrajectoriesThe Elucidation of Mechanisms for Quark Confinement in QCD:Vortices and Quark Confinement in Non-Abelian Gauge TheoriesCharge-Monopole Duality and the Phases of Non-Abelian Gauge TheoriesGeneral Introduction to ConfinementNon-Perturbative Constructions of the Bosonization (or Fermionization) in (1 + 1)-Dimension QFTs:Soliton Operators for the Quantized sine-Gordon EquationThe Proof of Perturbative Ultraviolet Finiteness and β = 0, in Any Gauge and to All Orders, of N = 4 SYM:Light-cone Superspace and the Ultraviolet Finiteness of the N=4 ModelMany Important Publications on String Theory and Eventually the First Long-awaited Proof of Pertubative Ultraviolet Finiteness of Superstring Theory So It Can be Considered as a Contender for Being the Theory of Quantum Gravity:Dual-Resonance ModelsThe n-loop String Amplitude: Explicit Formulas, Finiteness and Absence of Ambiguities<!-- </contents> -->
<!-- <readership> -->Readership: Students, researchers and academics interested in particle physics and the work of Stanley Mandelstam.<!-- </readership> -->
Keywords:Particle Physics;String Theory;Mandelstam Variables;Bootstrap Program;Scattering Amplitude;S-MatrixReview:0