Monthly Archives: May 2005

The Stormy Onset of Group Theory in the New Quantum Mechanics

When I first started studying quantum mechanics I read quite a bit about the remarkable history of the subject, especially about the brief period from 1925-27 when the subject grew dramatically out of the incoherent ideas of the old quantum … Continue reading

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Various Mathematical Links

I’ve recently run across various interesting mathematically oriented sites, each with some connection to physics: Alain Connes now has a web-site. He’s now a professor at Vanderbilt University as well as at the College de France. I can see him … Continue reading

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