Excellent hardcover textbook, clean, solid with unmarked text. Cover has mild surface and edge wear; no jacket. Binding is tight and square. We are unable to ship oversize books and multi-volume sets internationally.

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Titre

Understanding Quantum Mechanics

�diteur

Princeton University Press

Date de parution

1999

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0691004358

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780691004358

Reliure

Hardcover

�tat de l'article

Near Fine

�tat de la jaquette

None as issued

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Textbooks:Science

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Synopsis

Here Roland Omn�s offers a clear, up-to-date guide to the conceptual framework of quantum mechanics. In an area that has provoked much philosophical debate, Omn�s has achieved high recognition for his Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Princeton 1994), a book for specialists. Now the author has transformed his own theory into a short and readable text that enables beginning students and experienced physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers to form a comprehensive picture of the field while learning about the most recent advances.

This new book presents a more streamlined version of the Copenhagen interpretation, showing its logical consistency and completeness. The problem of measurement is a major area of inquiry, with the author surveying its history from Planck to Heisenberg before describing the consistent-histories interpretation. He draws upon the most recent research on the decoherence effect (related to the modern resolution of the famous Schr�dinger's cat problem) and an exact formulation of the correspondence between quantum and particle physics (implying a derivation of classical determinism from quantum probabilism).

Interpretation is organized with the help of a universal and sound language using so-called consistent histories. As a language and a method, it can now be shown to be free of ambiguity and it makes interpretation much clearer and closer to common sense.

� propos de l?auteur

Roland Omn�s is Professor of Physics at the University of Paris XI. His books include Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science (see p. 22 in this catalog), The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Princeton), L'Univers et ses Metamorphoses, and Introduction to Particle Physics.

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