This book provides an introduction to quantum theory, primarily for mathematics students. It assumes a knowledge of basic algebra and elementary group theory, with little or no familiarity with more advanced topics. Although it takes a traditional approach, the book exploits ideas of linear algebra and points out some of the mathematical subtleties of the theory. It also covers such topics as Bell's inequalities and coherent and squeezed states, and introduces group representation theory, algebraic quantum theory, and quantum statistical mechanics. Later chapters discuss relativistic wave equations and elementary particle symmetries from a group-theoretical standpoint.
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"Although this is an introductory text, some quite sophisticated concepts are discussed....In summary, this text gives undergraduate mathematics majors an excellent opportunity to see how their linear and abstract algebra and differential equations courses can be applied to modern physics."--Mathematical Reviews
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Keith Hannabuss is at Balliol College, Oxford.
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Great book, but not an introduction.,
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This review is from: An Introduction to Quantum Theory (Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics) (Hardcover)
This book is very readable if you have some knoledge about quantum mechanics. It shows how to calculate things using the theory but does not explain the physical part in much detail. It makes a good companion to the Feynman book where you have the physics greatly explained but little mathematical detail. If you are new tho the subject look somewhere else first. If you want to know how to get results from the theory this is the book.
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In the first quarter of this century physicists were slowly and somewhat reluctantly forced to realize that the view of the physical world, so painstakingly built up over the preceding four centuries, was in serious need of revision. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wolfgang Pauli, Dirac Hamiltonian, Max Born, The Bohr-Sommerfeld, Willy Wien, Applying Theorem, Niels Bohr New!
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In the first quarter of this century physicists were slowly and somewhat reluctantly forced to realize that the view of the physical world, so painstakingly built up over the preceding four centuries, was in serious need of revision. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wolfgang Pauli, Dirac Hamiltonian, Max Born, The Bohr-Sommerfeld, Willy Wien, Applying Theorem, Niels Bohr New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Wolfgang Pauli (Scientific Correspondence With Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, a.O./Volume I : 1919-1929) by A. Hermann on page 62, and Back Matter
- The Philosophy of Physics (The Evolution of Modern Philosophy) by Roberto Torretti in Back Matter
- Mathematical Aspects of Weyl Quantization and Phase by D.A. Dubin in Back Matter
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