| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction: Pedagogy and the Institutions of Theory | |
| 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 | |
| An Introduction in the Poconos | |
| Quantum Electrodynamics and the Problem of Infinities | |
| Initial Reception and Lingering Confusion | |
| Evidence of Dispersion | |
| Freeman Dyson and the Postdoc Cascade | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Seeds of Dispersion | |
| The Feynman-Dyson Split | |
| Perturbative Methods Fail, Feynman Diagrams Flourish | |
| Family Resemblances | |
| 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 | |
| Teaching the Diagrams in an Age of Textbooks | |
| The Postwar Age of Textbooks | |
| The New Diagrammatic Textbooks | |
| Pedagogy and the Pictures' Place | |
| Doodling toward a New "Theory" | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Why Did the Diagrams Stick? Inculcation and Reification | |
| In Search of the Vanishing Scientific Theory | |
| Feynman Diagrams in the Physical Review, 1949-54 | |
| Feynman Diagrams in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1950-54 | |
| Feynman Diagrams in Progress of Theoretical Physics, 1949-54 | |
| Feynman Diagrams in Soryushi-ron Kenkyu, 1949-52 | |
| Feynman Diagrams in Zhurnal eksperimental'noi i teoreticheskoi fiziki, 1952-59 | |
| Feynman Diagrams in Other Journals, 1950-54 | |
| Interviews | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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