From Spinors to Quantum Mechanics (Record no. 2339)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2015000300
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781783266388
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency WSPC
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency WSPC
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 530.12015122
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Coddens, Gerrit.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title From Spinors to Quantum Mechanics
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Singapore :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. ©2015.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 404 p. :
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "From Spinors to Quantum Mechanics discusses group theory and its use in quantum mechanics. Chapters 1 to 4 offer an introduction to group theory, and it provides the reader with an exact and clear intuition of what a spinor is, showing that spinors are just a mathematically complete notation for group elements. Chapter 5 contains the first rigorous derivation of the Dirac equation from a simple set of assumptions. The remaining chapters will interest the advanced reader who is interested in the meaning of quantum mechanics. They propose a novel approach to the foundations of quantum mechanics, based on the idea that the meaning of the formalism is already provided by the mathematics. In the traditional approach to quantum mechanics as initiated by Heisenberg, one has to start from a number of experimental results and then derive a set of rules and calculations that reproduce the observed experimental results. In such an inductive approach the underlying assumptions are not given at the outset. The reader has to figure them out, and this has proven to be difficult. The book shows that a different, bottom-up approach to quantum mechanics is possible, which merits further investigation as it demonstrates that with the methods used, the reader can obtain the correct results in a context where one would hitherto not expect this to be possible."--
Assigning source Provided by publisher.
533 ## - REPRODUCTION NOTE
Type of reproduction Electronic reproduction.
Place of reproduction Singapore :
Agency responsible for reproduction World Scientific,
Date of reproduction [2015].
538 ## - SYSTEM DETAILS NOTE
System details note Mode of access: World Wide Web.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Group theory.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Spinor analysis.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Quantum theory.
655 #0 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/p990#t=toc">http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/p990#t=toc</a>
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati 06/02/2018   530.12015122 EB00304 06/02/2018 06/02/2018 E-Books