P.A.M. Dirac and the Discovery of Quantum Mechanics

2003/02/05 by Kurt Gottfried, Gottfried, Kurt
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #hep-th #math-ph #math.MP #physics.hist-ph #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0302041

11 pages

arxiv created 2003/02/05 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

This colloquium summarizes Dirac's contributions to the discovery of quantum mechanics before he invented his relativistic wave equation.

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