Graduate students seeking to become familiar with advanced computational strategies in
classical and quantum dynamics will find in this book both the fundamentals of a standard
course and a detailed treatment of the time-dependent oscillator Chern-Simons mechanics the
Maslov anomaly and the Berry phase to name just a few topics. Well-chosen and detailed
examples illustrate perturbation theory canonical transformations and the action principle
and demonstrate the usage of path integrals. The sixth edition has been enlarged to include the
Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian Schwinger's source theory treatment of the low-energy pi- -N
physics and general relativity where Riemann's (Einstein's) ideas on space and time and their
philosophical implications are discussed.
