文档介绍：Max Jammer
The Philosophy of Quantum Merchanics:
The Interpretations of QM in historical perspective.
John Wiley and Sons 1974.
PREFACE
Never in the history of science has there been a theory which has had such
a profound impact on human thinking as quantum mechanics; nor has
there been a theory which scored such spectacular esses in the predic-
tion of such an enormous variety of phenomena (atomic physics, solid
state physics, chemistry, etc.). Furthermore, for all that is known today,
quantum mechanics is the only consistent theory of elementary processes.
Thus although quantum mechanics calls for a drastic revision of the very
foundations of traditional physics and epistemology, its mathematical
apparatus or, more generally, its abstract formalism seems to be firmly
established. In fact, no other formalism of a radically different structure
has ever been generally accepted as an alternative. The interpretation of
this formalism, however, is today, almost half a century after the advent of
the theory, still an issue of unprecedented dissension. In fact, it is by far
the most controversial problem of current research in the foundations of
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