The Guiding Influence of Stanley Mandelstam, from S-Matrix Theory to String Theory

Abstract

The guiding influence of some of Stanley Mandelstam's key contributions to the development of theoretical high energy physics is discussed, from the motivation for the study of the analytic properties of the scattering matrix through to dual resonance models and their evolution into string theory.

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