Annals forty years. Selected reprints from Annals of Physics (Q1399072)

The articles of this volume will be announced individually. Contents: A. Arima and F. Iachello, Interacting boson model of collective states. I. The vibrational limit (2-64); Roger Balian and Marcel Vénéroni, Time-dependent variational principle for the expectation value of an observable: mean-field applications (65-142); Gordon Baym, Field-theoretic approach to the properties of the solid state (143-186); Rodney J. Baxter, Partition function of the eight-vertex lattice model (187-222); F. Capuzzi and C. Mahaux, Relationship between Feshbach's and Green's function theories of the nucleon-nucleus mean field (223-359); E. D. Courant and H. S. Snyder, Theory of the alternating-gradient synchrotron (360-408); S. Deser, R. Jackiw and S. Templeton, Topologically massive gauge theories (409-449); Sidney D. Drell and Tung-Mow Yan, Partons and their applications at high energies (450-493); Torleif Ericson, A theory of fluctuations in nuclear cross sections (494-518); Herman Feshbach, A unified theory of nuclear reactions. II. (519-546); R. P. Feynman and F. L. Vernon, Jr., The theory of a general quantum system interacting with a linear dissipative system (547-607); Kenneth W. Ford and John A. Wheeler, Semiclassical description of scattering (608-635); P. C. Hohenberg and P. C. Martin, Microscopic theory of superfluid helium (636-705); T. Holstein, Studies of polaron motion. I: The molecular-crystal model (706-724); T. Holstein, Studies of polaron motion. II: The ``small'' polaron (725-773); M. Jacob and G. C. Wick, On the general theory of collisions for particles with spin (774-799); Leo P. Kadanoff and Paul C. Martin, Hydrodynamic equations and correlation functions (800-852); A. K. Kerman, H. McManus and R. M. Thaler, The scattering of fast nucleons from nuclei (853-940); J. S. Langer, Theory of the condensation point (941-990); J. E. Littlewood, Adiabatic invariance. III: The equation \(\ddot x=-V_x(x,\omega)\) (991-1003); Gerhart Lüders, Proof of the TCP theorem (1004-1018); Julian Schwinger, Wu-Yang Tsai and Thomas Erber, Classical and quantum theory of synergic synchrotron-Čerenkov radiation (1019-1048).