文档介绍：From c-Numbers to q-Numbers
The Classical Analogy in the History of Quantum
Theory
Olivier Darrigol
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford
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Preferred Citation:
Darrigol, Olivier.
From c-Numbers to q-Numbers: The Classical Analogy in the History of Quantum Theory.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONVENTIONS AND NOTATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PART A PLANCK'S RADIATION THEORY
Introduction
Chapter I Concepts of Gas Theory
Chapter II Planck's Absolute Irreversibility
Chapter III On Irreversible Radiation Processes
Chapter IV The Infrared Challenge
PART B THE CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE
Introduction
Chapter V The Bohr Atom (1913-1916)
Chapter VI Postulates and Principles
Chapter VII Harmonic Interplay
Chapter VIII A Crisis
Chapter IX The Virtual Orchestra
Chapter X Matrix Mechanics
PART C DIRAC'S QUANTUM MECHANICS
Introduction
Chapter XI Classical Beauty
Chapter XII Queer Numbers
Chapter XIII Quantum Beauty
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN CITATIONS AND IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY LITERATURE
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY LITERATURE
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I first conceived the project of this book three years ago, during a conversation with John
Heilbron in the Berkeley hills. Since then, and before, John has encouraged me in many
ways: commenting on my work, giving me professional advice, and inviting me for long
stays at an ideal working place, the Office for the History of Science and Technology at
Berkeley.
There I made friends with Edward Jurkowicz, without whom the project of writing a
book m English would have been beyond my reach. Not only did Ed correct and clarify
my English, but his highly ments helped to structure and strengthen many of
my arguments.
In France I received the highest intellectual stimulation fro