Interesting Book On The History Of QM And Einstein's Role

[bhobba]

Check it out:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PYMLZWJ/?tag=pfamazon01-20

Its available free if you have Kindle Unlimited.

Many books do not get right that Einstein knew QM very well indeed and greatly admired Dirac, of whom he said:
'Dirac, to whom, in my opinion, we owe the most perfect exposition, logically, of this [quantum] theory'

I rather liked it.

Thanks
Bill

 

[PeterDonis]

While I agree that it's easy to misconstrue Einstein's role in developing QM and his opinions of it, just on reading the Preface of this book I see a lot of things that ring my "personal theory" alarm bells.

 

[PeterDonis]

just on reading the Preface of this book I see a lot of things that ring my "personal theory" alarm bells.

A look at the author's website strengthens this impression:

http://informationphilosopher.com/

 

[QLogic]

I think the best histories of QM are "Quantum Generations" by Helge Kragh, Chapter 1 of Weinberg's Lectures on Quantum Mechanics or for full detail the six volume "The Historical Development of Quantum Theory" by Mehra and Rechenberg.

The first two give a good summary of Einstein's contributions.

 

[jedishrfu]

There is also the Hawking book titled Dreams that Stuff is Made Of with seminal papers by the physicists who developed QM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreams_That_Stuff_Is_Made_Of

 

[bhobba]

There is also the Hawking book titled Dreams that Stuff is Made Of with seminal papers by the physicists who developed QM.

Had a look. Interesting content and haven't read a book by Hawking for ages. Not part of Kindle unlimited but still very cheap so said what the heck and got it.

Thanks
Bill

 

[QLogic]

Formatting is odd in that book with a good few transcription errors.

 

[haushofer]

I really like Ghirardi's book. It sits nice between popular and academic, and contains a lot of history.