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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: quantum cookbook
    sub title: mathematical recipes for the foundations of quantum mechanics
  name:
    name part: Baggott, J. E.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations
  abstract: The Quantum Cookbook provides a unique bridge between popular exposition and formal textbook presentation, based on derivations of the iconic equations of quantum mechanics. This is a book for curious readers with some background in physics and sufficient mathematical capability. It aims not to teach readers how to do quantum mechanics but rather helps them to understand how to think about quantum mechanics. Each derivation is presented as a 'recipe' with listed ingredients, including standard results from the mathematician's toolkit, set out in a series of easy-to-follow steps. The recipes have been written sympathetically, for readers who--like the author--will often struggle to follow the logic of a derivation which misses out steps that are 'obvious', or which use techniques that readers are assumed to know. The simple truth is that quantum mechanics did not suddenly materialize overnight in the minds of its creators, fully formed, complete with all its axioms and principles. It was instead tortured from much more familiar classical physical descriptions, over a period of decades, as physicists struggled to interpret a series of ever more baffling experimental results. Only later was a much higher level of abstraction introduced into quantum mechanics, in an attempt to establish a secure mathematical foundation that would eradicate all the confusing classical misconceptions inherited from its birth and early childhood. Whilst there are some obvious exceptions, for the most part these derivations are triumphs of physical intuition over mathematical rigour and consistency.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Jim Baggott.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Quantum theory
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Theory
  subject:
    topic: Théorie quantique
  subject:
    topic: Quantum theory
  classification: QC174.12 .B34 2020eb
  classification: 530.12
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Quantum cookbook
    name:
      name part: Baggott, J.E.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1111772730
  identifier: 9780191866579
  identifier: 0191866571
  identifier: 9780198827856
  identifier: 9780198827863
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 200113
    record change date: 20260319181728.9
    record identifier: in00005718097
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng