Quantum Mechanics - Albert Messiah

Quantum Mechanics by Albert Messiah is a comprehensive volume on quantum mechanics. This paperback edition is presented as a single-volume translation of a work that first appeared in a two-volume French edition.

Key details

• Author: Albert Messiah
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 1152
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 31 January 2014
• ISBN: 9780486784557

Synopsis

Originally issued in French across two volumes and later published by John Wiley & Sons in New York in 1958, this reprint brings the full text together in one substantial book. It opens with the formalism of quantum mechanics and its interpretation, covering the origins of quantum theory, matter waves, the Schrödinger equation, one-dimensional quantised systems, uncertainty relations, and the mathematical framework that underpins the subject.

The later chapters turn to symmetries and invariance, including angular momentum, identical particles and the Pauli exclusion principle, conservation laws and time reversal, before moving on to approximation methods such as stationary perturbations, equations of motion, the variational method and collision theory. The concluding section reviews elements of relativistic quantum mechanics, with appendixes included.

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