Daniel F. Styer (born 1955) is an American

theoretical physicist Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experimen ...

and

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of physics at

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. He is author of several books on

theoretical physics Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experim ...

Education and career

Styer obtained his B.A. from

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...

in 1977, majoring in physics. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1983 from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

on ''Partial Differential Approximants and Applications to Statistical Mechanics''. Subsequently, he worked at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

until 1985 as Postdoctoral Fellow. He started working at

in the physics department in 1985, became full professor in 1998, and was awarded the John and Marianne Schiffer Professorship in physics in 2007.Curriculum Vitae
/ref> He worked as visiting faculty at

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...

in fall 1988, and at the

University of Colorado, Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado syst ...

in fall 1991, and he is a reviewer for numerous physics journals. From 1997 to 1999 he was associate editor of the

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Publications

Styer has authored books on

relativity theory The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity, proposed and published in 1905 and 1915, respectively. Special relativity applies to all physical phenomena in ...

statistical mechanics In physics, statistical mechanics is a mathematical framework that applies statistical methods and probability theory to large assemblies of microscopic entities. It does not assume or postulate any natural laws, but explains the macroscopic be ...

and

quantum mechanics Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, ...

, as well as numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including scientific articles, book reviews and didactically-oriented articles. He also expanded the book ''Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals'' by

Richard P. Feynman Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superflu ...

and Albert R. Hibbs. Books: * D.F. Styer: ''Invitation to Quantum Mechanics'' (2022), World Scientific. * D.F. Styer: ''Relativity for the Questioning Mind'',

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, Baltimore, Maryland, 2011 * D.F. Styer: ''Statistical Mechanics'', Oberlin College, 2007 * D.F. Styer
''The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics''

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press A university press is an academic publishing hou ...

, Cambridge, U.K., 2000 * J.R. Hiller, I.D. Johnson, D.F. Styer: ''Quantum Mechanics Simulations'',

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, New York, 1995 He has also published numerous didactically oriented articles in the

, including: *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Styer, Daniel F. 1955 births Living people 20th-century American physicists Cornell University alumni