THE PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, x, 257 pages; VG/VG-; tan spine with dark blue text; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '17s. 6d. net', slight chipping to head of spine, slight toning and shelfwear; cloth exterior has slight vertical streak to front board; remnants of single fold to the upper fore corners of pages 63-70; scarce in dust jacket; shelved case 10.
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-1984) was a English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory". Dirac's The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, published in 1930, is a landmark in the history of science. It quickly became one of the standard textbooks on the subject and is still used today. In that book, Dirac incorporated the previous work of Werner Heisenberg on matrix mechanics and of Erwin Schrödinger on wave mechanics into a single mathematical formalism that associates measurable quantities to operators acting on the Hilbert space of vectors that describe the state of a physical system. [wikipedia]