Corrections

Preface

Chapter 1 Looking ad the Nonlinear World

Chapter 2 Conceptual Analysis

p94 Unfortunately, the following excellent site was removed recently: 

http://www.sci.kagoshima _u.ac.jp/~ebsa/miyataka01/ 

where we could read the whole book of O. Miyatake and T. Nakayama,  Monte Carlo Method.  [There, the author’s name Miyatake is erroneously written as Miyataka.]

Chapter 3 Phenomenology

p167-8 (3.82), (3.83), (3.84), (3.86)

The numerical coefficient (i/2) in front of A^3(t) must be replaced by (-i/8) as can be seen from (3.117) on p173. [The author gratefully acknowledge that these errors were pointed by Mr Takafumi Arakaki.]

p173 (3.118) The second term must be multiplied with \epsilon. [pointed by Mr Takafumi Arakaki.]　Its sign must be + [pointed by Prof Barry A Friedman]

p179 (3.136) (\partial_r^2+k_0^)  ->  (\partial_r^2+k_0^)^2  [pointed by Prof Barry A Friedman]

p180   \psi_0 is the sum of Ae^{ikr} and its  complex conjugate [pointed by Prof Barry A Friedman]