Wow! I've never seen that one. It'd be fun to try to read that one. One of my imagined hobbies that I never have time for is reading the original works on quantum mechanics, to see how they came up with it.
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Those were the days when Dover paperbacks still boasted pages sewn in signatures, in the manner of the best books. I still have all of them, and although repeated readings have left creases in their bindings, none shows any signs of cracking or splitting.
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Are you acquainted with Max Born's ATOMIC PHYSICS? If not, let me beg you to obtain a copy at once; I've never seen a more useful and wide-ranging book, and its exposition of the pre-Heisenberg quantum theory (and of adiabatic invariants in particular) remains indispensable.
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"Can it really be true that you omitted to purchase and read ANY of the Dover books on quantum physics written by the founders of that science?" I learned QM from the Feynman Lectures and from various modern textbooks; I've never really bothered to dig into the old stuff.
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Thank you for this fascinating answer. I myself could never resist a Dover book, and came very close to buying up their entire math-and-physics catalog. I was also in awe of the historical greats from the outset of my career, and hung on their every word.
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