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Beyond Feynman's diagrams

Generations of physicists have spent much of their lives using Richard Feynman's famous diagrams to calculate how particles interact. New mathematical tools are simplifying the results and suggesting improved underlying principles.

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Turok, N. Beyond Feynman's diagrams. Nature 469, 165–166 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/469165a

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