Product Description: This invaluable book takes the reader from Planck's discovery of the quantum in 1900 to the most recent interpretations and applications of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics.The introduction of the quantum idea leads off the prehistory of quantum mechanics, featuring Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Compton, and de Broglie's immortal contributions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Two physicists examine philosophical and scientific questions in the imaginary setting of a modern day Platonic Academy

Two physicists examine philosophical and scientific questions in the imaginary setting of a modern day Platonic Academy (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book makes broadly accessible an understandable proof of the infamous spin-statistics theorem. This widely known but little-understood theorem is intended to explain the fact that electrons obey the Pauli exclusion principle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Robert Eugene Marshak (1916-92) devoted much of his life to helping other people carry out scientific research and gather to discuss their work. In addition to his scientific statesmanship, he was an extraordinarily gifted research scientist, and many of his scientific contributions have been prophetic...read more