Constructing Quantum Mechanics by Duncan

[Frabjous]

Anyone read these books and care to share their thoughts?

https://www.amazon.com/Constructing...ld-1900-1923/dp/0198845472/?tag=pfamazon01-20
https://www.amazon.com/Constructing...ch-1923-1927/dp/0198883900/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[dextercioby]

Nice find, I also wonder what it brings new in a topic well covered over the years.

 

[Frabjous]

@weirdoguy
Any comments? You mentioned the first volume a couple of years ago.

 

[weirdoguy]

Ah, yes. I would rank it as 4 out of 5. Sometimes it's a tough read because of the way some topics were historically developed. Some of the authors summaries (as I remember, first chapter or two, are summaries of the whole book) are also a tough read, but I guess that's because it's hard to summary the chaos that was happening

 

[otennert]

Anyone read these books and care to share their thoughts?

https://www.amazon.com/Constructing...ld-1900-1923/dp/0198845472/?tag=pfamazon01-20
https://www.amazon.com/Constructing...ch-1923-1927/dp/0198883900/?tag=pfamazon01-20

I haven't read them (yet), but they are at the top of my list. However, I have read this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Conceptual-Framework-Quantum-Field-Theory/dp/0199573263?tag=pfamazon01-20

and in a way the books you mention above are the prequels to it. They are not typical textbooks on either QM or QFT, but rather aim at showing their historical as well as the conceptual development. Hence, in order to understand and gain from these books, you should at least have a working knowledge of QM and QFT respectively.

All three books are excellently written, and I would give them also at least 4 out of 5, just as "weirdoguy",

 

[Muu9]

Is it more technical than this? https://physics.yale.edu/news/golub...al-and-physical-foundations-quantum-mechanics

 

[otennert]

This one I own too, but I haven't read it yet. I would say it is comparable in style and content.

 

[weirdoguy]

Is it more technical than this?

I don't know that book, but Duncans one is technical, at a level of a proper textbook.