Quantum Physics - My adventure and obsession.

[scorpion990]

Just a side note, I'm 3rd year pursuing a math degree. I plan on taking QM courses either in supplement to my Master's (I'm hoping to get into quantum computing through non-commutative geometry).

Would undergraduate QM courses be relatively more accessible with a background in linear algebra, functional analysis and measure theory?

I haven't taken a physics course since first year, and that didn't even touch on modern physics.

Take a look at this book, too:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/082184699X/?tag=pfamazon01-20

It's a nice supplement.

 

[HossamCFD]

OFF TOPIC!

-Before I die, I hope that someone will explain quantum mechanics to me. After I die, I hope that God will explain turbulence to me. (W. Heisenberg)

I came across this quotation (or a rephrase of it) many times. Sometimes it is attributed to Heisenberg and other times it's attributed to Sir Horace Lamb. But I couldn't find any authentic source for it. Could you find any ?

 

[twofish-quant]

By a mathematician's standard, even graduate QM is hand-wavy...

By mathematicians standards, everything that physicists do is hand-wavy. Physicists and mathematicians look at the world in fundamentally different ways, and physicists will do things with math that will make mathematicians run away screaming in horror.