| Preface and Acknowledgments |
| Abbreviations |
| Introduction: Pedagogy and the Institutions of Theory / Chapter 1： |
| Richard Feynman and His Diagrams |
| Paper Tools and the Practice of Theory |
| Pedagogy and Postwar Physics |
| Overview: The Two Meanings of "Dispersion" |
| Dispersing the Diagrams, 1948-54 / Part I： |
| An Introduction in the Poconos / Chapter 2： |
| Quantum Electrodynamics and the Problem of Infinities |
| Initial Reception and Lingering Confusion |
| Evidence of Dispersion |
| Freeman Dyson and the Postdoc Cascade / Chapter 3： |
| The Rise of Postdoctoral Training |
| Dyson as Diagrammatic Ambassador |
| Life and Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study |
| The Postdoc Cascade |
| A Pedagogical Field Theory |
| International Dispersion / Chapter 4： |
| The Diagrams' Diaspora |
| Feynman Diagrams in Great Britain |
| Feynman Diagrams in Japan |
| Feynman Diagrams in the Soviet Union |
| Tacit and Explicit Knowledges |
| Dispersion in Form, Use, and Meaning / Part II： |
| Seeds of Dispersion / Chapter 5： |
| The Feynman-Dyson Split |
| Perturbative Methods Fail, Feynman Diagrams Flourish |
| Family Resemblances / Chapter 6： |
| Kroll's Perturbative Bookkeepers |
| Marshak's Meson Markers |
| Climbing Bethe's Ladder: Feynman Diagrams and the Many-Body Problem |
| Training Theorists for House and Field |
| Feynman Diagrams in and Out of Field Theory, 1955-70 / Part III： |
| Teaching the Diagrams in an Age of Textbooks / Chapter 7： |
| The Postwar Age of Textbooks |
| The New Diagrammatic Textbooks |
| Pedagogy and the Pictures' Place |
| Doodling toward a New "Theory" / Chapter 8： |
| Dispersion Relations |
| Crossing to a New Representation |
| From Bookkeepers to Pole Finders: Polology and the Landau Rules |
| Chew the Program Builder: Nuclear Democracy and the Bootstrap |
| Diagrammatic Bootstrapping and the Emergence of New Theories |
| "Democratic" Diagrams in Berkeley and Princeton / Chapter 9： |
| Geoffrey Chew: A Scientist's Politics of Democracy in 1950s America |
| Pedagogical Reforms: "Secret Seminars" and "Wild Merrymaking" |
| The View from Princeton |
| Conditions of Diagrammatic Possibilities |
| Paper Tools and the Theorists' Way of Life / Chapter 10： |
| Why Did the Diagrams Stick? Inculcation and Reification |
| In Search of the Vanishing Scientific Theory |
| Feynman Diagrams in the Physical Review, 1949-54 / Appendix A： |
| Feynman Diagrams in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1950-54 / Appendix B： |
| Feynman Diagrams in Progress of Theoretical Physics, 1949-54 / Appendix C： |
| Feynman Diagrams in Soryushi-ron Kenkyu, 1949-52 / Appendix D： |
| Feynman Diagrams in Zhurnal eksperimental'noi i teoreticheskoi fiziki, 1952-59 / Appendix E： |
| Feynman Diagrams in Other Journals, 1950-54 / Appendix F： |
| Interviews |
| Bibliography |
| Index |
| Preface and Acknowledgments |
| Abbreviations |
| Introduction: Pedagogy and the Institutions of Theory / Chapter 1： |
| Richard Feynman and His Diagrams |
| Paper Tools and the Practice of Theory |
| Pedagogy and Postwar Physics |
