David B. Cook

My area of expertise for most of my career has been Computational

Quantum Chemistry and my earlier books reflect that interest.

More recently I have written about the development and interpretation

of quantum theory, particularly Schrodinger's Mechanics (non-relativistic

quantum theory). This later work is motivated by an insistence on

the continuity of the main thrust of science since the Enlightenment;

that the world around us can be understood, not simply 'rationalised' and its

numerical properties reproduced, but understood.

In spite of its quantitative successes, modern physics has become surrounded by

a fog of pseudo-philosophy and mystical yearnings against which I hope

to continue to make - perhaps quixotic - counter attacks.