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Title: Quantum Mechanics by Albert Messiah ISBN: 0-486-40924-4 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 21 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Good Thorough Book
Comment: The book is thorough and covers all the topics in Quantum mechanics.The chapters follow just the way Q.M developed over the years.The reader would find it even more interesting if he/she has some background in Classical Mechanics because Messiah often refers to Hamilton-Jacobi equation, Action and Hamiltonian in general.
The book also develops Bra-Ket algebra in a very easy way, something I have not seen any other book.Messiah's way of treating scattering problems is quite different from that of the others. He doesn't make use of Green's Function but uses the wave-packet approach.
This books gets 3 stars because it's quite verbose. Messiah often gets stuck in explaining things over and over again(therefore the size of the book!). The drawback is that there are few problems per chapter and are quite difficult. This does not help the student gain confidence in the subject. The book assumes you are familiar with Electrodynamics.
Rating: 4
Summary: As an introduction this is a very good book
Comment: For years I have come back again and again to the section on
field quantization and radiation theory.
I bought this at the same time I bought Weinberg's Cosmology.
I had many of the same unitary problems I had with that book.
If someone would just publish in simple cgs or mks units?
The U(1) electromagnetic gauge equations and the coverage of Maxwell and Dirac theory
are exceptional. I was a poor student who had to sell
his books back each semester to afford the next one.
I bought this book as a long term reference and
it has delivered not theorems but accessibility and understandability.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't be afraid of the Size
Comment: The book is huge, but that's why it includes more complete information about QM. It's easier to understand than some very popular standard and small textbooks. Both physics and math are balanced and self-contained. If you want books of the same quality and better presentation, maybe only Prof. Ta-You Wu's two books about QM would be.
Anyway, if you need only one book about QM, this is the best. It's a complete course for senior or graduate students. And it's cheaper.
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Title: Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics by Frederick W. Byron, W. Fuller Robert ISBN: 048667164X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 20 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Quantum Theory by David Bohm ISBN: 0486659690 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Quantum Mechanics (Schaum's) by Yoav Peleg, Reuven Phini, Eliahu Zaarur, Reuven Pnini, Elyahu Zaarur ISBN: 0070540187 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 30 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Mathematics for Physicists by Philippe Dennery, Andre Krzywicki ISBN: 0486691934 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 14 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Lectures on Quantum Mechanics by Paul A. M. Dirac ISBN: 0486417131 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 22 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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