In 1932, world-renowned physicist Wolfgang Pauli had already done the work that would win him the 1945 Nobel Prize. He was also suffering after a series of troubling personal events. He was drinking heavily, quarrelling frequently, and experiencing powerful, disturbing dreams. Pauli turned to C. G. [...]
Eighty letters, written over twenty-six years, record that friendship, and are published here in English for the first time.[...]
Important text represents a concise course on the subject, centering on the historic development of the basic ideals and the logical structure of the theory, with particular emphasis on Brownian motion and quantum statistics. Alone or as part of the complete set, this volume represents a peerless re[...]
Focuses on wave functions of force-free particles, description of a particle in a box and in free space, particle in a field of force, more than one particle, eigenvalue problems, collision processes, approximate methods for solving the wave equation, matrices and operators, perturbation theory, ang[...]