New edition of Ballentine's textbook.

[strangerep]

For those who like Ballentine's textbook, I just noticed that a 2nd edition has become available very recently. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the Amazon "look inside" feature enabled so I can't see easily what's been changed, apart from the extra chapter on quantum information mentioned in the general blurb.

Amazon has 4 copies left... but... <click>... now they have 3. ;)

 

[DrClaude]

The publisher's web page for the book: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9038

 

[naima]

A new chapter about quantum information?
No-cloning no-deleting no-hiding theorems maybe?

 

[dextercioby]

We've always discussed the sensitive issues from his 1998 book, like we do right now here: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/living-opponents-of-the-copenhagen-interpretation.781071/

I don't think this 2nd edition changes anything there, but it would be interesting to know exactly, nonetheless. I mean the 1998 book was built on his 1970 RMP famous article (quite a gap).

 

[DarMM]

The new edition ships with sexy pin-ups of the founding fathers of QM, which was always lacking in the first edition.

 

[bhobba]

The publisher's web page for the book: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9038

I see the mathematical prerequisites is available for free.

Great resource for those that ask the tricky questions about continuous eigenvalues etc.

Thanks
Bill

 

[strangerep]

We've always discussed the sensitive issues from his 1998 book, like we do right now here: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/living-opponents-of-the-copenhagen-interpretation.781071/

Istm, what's discussed is a somewhat incoherent mixture of his book, and his old 1970 paper.

I don't think this 2nd edition changes anything there, but it would be interesting to know exactly, nonetheless. I mean the 1998 book was built on his 1970 RMP famous article (quite a gap).

This is more like a 3rd edition. The 1st was 1990 (with a different publisher?), the 2nd was 1998 (World Scientific), and now we have the 2015 edition (sic) -- which World Scientific seems to call the "2nd edition" of his 1998 book.

It's interesting to read the preface (which can be freely downloaded as part of the "front matter" on the publisher page that Dr Claude gave). It gives some insight into his motivations back in 1990, as well as how it has evolved in ~25 yrs since.

 

[bhobba]

Istm, what's discussed is a somewhat incoherent mixture of his book, and his old 1970 paper.

That's true.

His book evolved a bit from the 1970 paper where in the book he clarified exactly what an observation selecting from a conceptual ensemble means.

Thanks
Bill

 

[naima]

The previous edition ended with chapter 20 (Bell's theorem and its consequences.
There is now a new (21) chapter about quantum information.
Did somebody read it?