文档介绍：MatheInatics
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QuantUIn Mechanics
An Introductory Sur"e..y of Operators,
Eigen"alues, and Linear Vector Spaces
John David Jackson
University of Illinois
w. A. Benjamin, Inc. New York 1962
MATHEMATICS FOR QUANTUM MECHANICS
An Introductory Survey
Copyright@ 1962 by W. A. Benjamin, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-17526
Manufactured in the United States of America
The manuscript was received April 1, 1962,
and published July 20, 1962.
W. A. BENJAMIN, INC.
Editor's Foreword
Everyone concerned with the teaching of physics at the advanced
undergraduate or graduate level is aware of the continuing need for
a modernization and anization of the basic course material.
Despite the existence today of many good textbooks in these areas,
there is always an appreciable time-lag in the incorporation of new
view-points and techniques which result from the most recent de•
velopments in physics research. Typically these changes in con•
cepts and material take place first in the personal lecture notes of
some of those who teach graduate courses. Eventually, printed notes
may appear, and some fraction of such notes evolve into textbooks or
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to a very limited audience, to the detriment of all. Our series aims
at filling this gap in the literature of physics by presenting occasional
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