This classic book derives from a lecture course Vladimir Gribov, who was one of the founding fathers of high-energy elementary particle physics, delivered to graduate students in the 1970´s. It thus provides today´s graduate students and researcherswith the opportunity to learn from the teaching of one of the twentieth-century´s greatest physicists. Its content is still deeply relevant to modern research, for example exploring properties of the relativistic theory of hadron interactions in a domain of peripheral collisions and large distances that quantum chromodynamics has barely approached. It covers a combination of topics not treated elsewhere, while remaining self-contained and accessible at a graduate level.
