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This chapter deals with fermions which, according to common terminology, are particles obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics. By the spin-statistics theorem [7.2,3] we are assured that fermions possess half-integer spin. Moreover, it seems a well established fact that the most fundamental fermions such as quarks and leptons have spin 1/2 and are thus adequately described by the Dirac theory.
Clearly this is a subject in which common sense will have to guide the passage between the Scylla of mathematical Talmudism and the Charibdis of mathematical nonsense. Jeremy Bernstein
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Roepstorff, G. (1994). Fermions. In: Path Integral Approach to Quantum Physics. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57886-1_10
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