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by: P. A. M. Dirac
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 530.1
EAN: 9780198520115
ISBN: 0198520115
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 314
Publication Date: February 04, 1982
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 55698
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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Rating:  - P. A. M. Dirac was the Giant of QM!
His insight into the physical interpretation of the formalism of Quantum Mechanics has no precedent. Almost every physicist around the world agrees that HE IS MASTER DIRAC, so an insight into his vision of the theory is invaluable.
This is not a didactic book, in fact, in my opinion, it is not even to be considered a text book. Its value concerns the rigorous development of the formalism of QM, as well as a firm base for the understanding of the very principles of it. I'd say it's ... Read More
Rating: - Essential in any physicist bookshelf
This book is the basis of Quantum Mech any physicist that respect him or herself should read Dirac because it resembles the origins and gives the best description of QM there can be in this book you can feel the real possibilities of QM I say possibilities because at the time QM wasn't fully developed, or at least as thought through as it is now.
Either way this is a basic book for anyone intending to study physics I really recommend it.
One thing you should know is that the image ... Read More
Rating: - A meticulous account by a man who was there
This wonderful book lays out the thought process by which Dirac's formulation of quantum mechanics, with its much-handwaved-about "bra" and "ket" notation, came to be. Dirac makes minimal assumptions about the reader's prior education (appropriate, since the first edition was published in an age when a thorough scientific education comprised Homer, Virgil, Euclid, and Newton), so there are none of those annoying allusions of the form, "from which, of course, the insights of [famous name X] allow us ... Read More
Rating: - Simply the Best
Quite simply, this is the most important book written on the foundations of physics in the last 100 years. I read this when I was 18 & it persuaded me to pursue a career in theoretical physics. It is still one of the few books in physics that I return to after 40 years.
Life is too short, so just read the 'Masters' - Dirac is the greatest master of physics in the 20th Century.
Rating: - Impressive
As anothers reviewers state don't expect to learn QM from this book -actually I think Cohen-Tannoudji is one of the best for this purpose-, but if you know already some quantum mechanics you'll find a very clear and elegant introduction of the dirac formalism of QM. I like it very much.
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