Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Dirac (139 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine.

Condition: New. Brand New. Soft Cover International Edition. Different ISBN and Cover Image. Priced lower than the standard editions which is usually intended to make them more affordable for students abroad. The core content of the book is generally the same as the standard edition. The country selling restrictions may be printed on the book but is no problem for the self-use. This Item maybe shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.1.

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. 2nd. Second edition, published 1935, Bookplate on inside front cover, notaton dated 1937 on front free endpaper. Pencil notations in margins of many pages, some ink markings on a few pages. A foundational text on quantum mechanics.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. Paul Adrien Maurice Diracâs The Principles of Quantum Mechanics is a seminal work in theoretical physics, first published in 1930 and later revised in multiple editions, including the third edition in 1947. This book played a crucial role in shaping modern quantum mechanics, introducing Diracâs braket notation, which became a standard mathematical framework for quantum states. The 1947 edition notably revised the chapter on quantum electrodynamics, incorporating discussions on electron-positron creation, reflecting advancements in quantum field theory. Diracâs approach emphasized mathematical elegance, presenting quantum mechanics with a logical structure that moved beyond classical physics. This work remains one of the most influential texts in quantum mechanics, setting the foundation for wave functions, operators, and quantum transformations. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered. Speckled top edge. Boards & spine sunned & lightly marked. Ink inscription to the front endpaper & inside of the front board. Contents clean & sound. 323 pasges. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Varied Books; New Arrivals; Z. Inventory No: 517587. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Condition: Very Good. 1956 printing of the 3rd edition, xii, 311, [1] pp.; original dark blue cloth (hardcover), very good (lacks dust jacket). - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Purple Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. Text is primarily in English, only a few parts are presented in Chinese as well as having it printed in English. Scratch present on front board exposing white under cover, a few very mild scratches also present. Blue ink from a stamp present on back, end-papers. Otherwise in very good condition.

Blue Buckram. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No dj. Third Edition. 1956 4th impression of the 1947 third edition, reprinted lithographically from sheets of the 1947 3rd edition. Text block sound and tight, free of markings, underlinings or such. Boards have minor rubbing to corners, gilt titling a little dulled to spine. Only thing that lets down the appearance a little is some dull water-splash spots to the boards, with a larger splash mark around the base of the spine. The spiner panel itself has slight even sunfade, and displays well on the shelf. xii+311pp. Size: 8vo.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo.,pp. xii,311, green cloth, gilt; toned to margins, pencil annotation to front free endpaper and occasionally to margins, sunning to spine and lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition, fourth printing. 24 x 16.5 cm. Octavo. xii 311pp. Dark navy cloth. Originally done in 1930, this is a lithographic reprint of the third edition done in 1956. Name on front free endpaper. Rear gutter is cracked. "The 3rd edition has been rewritten with the use of the notation of bra and ket vectors. This notation allows for a more direct connexion to be made between the formalism in terms of the abstract quantities corresponding to states and observables and the formalism in terms of representatives - in fact the two formalisms become welded into a single comprehensive scheme. With the help of this notation several of the deductions in the book take a simpler and neater form." - from the preface. Dirac shared the Nobel Prize with Schrödinger in 1933 "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition/Third Printing / slight tape staining.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Dust jacket shows minor wear and tear. Pages are slightly worn on their edges, text intact and unmarked. Cover hinge binding is worn. Page binding is intact and firm. Good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Third Edition (1956). XII+312 pages. NearFine Hardcover, no dj. DarkBlue cloth, Gilt spine title and stamping. Name penned on the Flyleaf otherwise Clean Unmarked Throughout. Strong Tight binding and hinges. 9.5"x6.4". be41483.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. (1949), 311pp, navy cloth, 3rd ed., 'The International Series of Monographs on Physics', corners lightly bumped, some shelfwear to cover, a few pgs (minimal) w/ margin markings or underlining.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. 4th edition. In protective mylar cover. (science, physics, quantum mechanics, math) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo (24 cm), XII, 312 pp. Publisher's cloth with a gilt-lettered spine (binding slightly rubbed, spine faded). Fourth edition. English physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984) stands as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century. In 1933, alongside Erwin Schrödinger, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering new forms of atomic theory. Dirac is best known for his crucial and elegant contributions to the formulation of quantum mechanics and his quantum theory of the emission and absorption of radiation, which laid the foundation for quantum electrodynamics. Modern expositions of quantum mechanics often draw upon his masterpiece, "The Principles of Quantum Mechanics" (1930) [DSB XVII, p.224]. The second rewritten edition of the book was published in 1934, and the third edition in 1947 underwent significant revisions to incorporate various improvements. In this fourth edition, the chapter on quantum electrodynamics has been rewritten. The theory, initially conserving the number of charged particles, has been replaced by a quantum electrodynamics that includes the creation and annihilation of electron-positron pairs. A revised fourth edition was issued in 1967.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. DIRAC, P.A.M. Quantum Mechanics. Oxford University Press. 1959. Fourth edition. 312pp. The Dirac QM editions appeared so: 1st ed (1930), 2n ed (1932), 3rd ed 1947, and 4th ed (1958) . Cloth. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. A very solid copy of the 1947 stated 3rd edition of this towering achievement in the study of quantum mechanics by the British Nobel physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984) . Solid and VG+ (very light spotting along the spine, small, neat former owner name and university address at the front free endpaper) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with very mild chipping and creasing along the panel edges and at the spine. Octavo, 311 pgs. Also includes a laid-in copy of an original, contemporary-to-the-period Blackwell's (Oxford) book order form.

Condition: Good. First edition. Octavo (24 cm) 312 pages. Cloth only. Boards a bit tired, contents clean. A bit of spotting on the fore-edge and bottom edge. Slightly shaken in binding. Ownership inscription on front blank dated 1930.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Second. xi, 297, [2] pages. Tall thick 8vo, gilt-lettered blue cloth, d.w. (price-clipped, sunned and a bit chipped). Oxford: Clarendon, 1935. Second edition, Bookplate and owner's name on the pastedown, else a fine clean copy in a very good dust wrapper. Dirac's most important contribution to "wave mechanics", the mathematical description of the atom worked out by Schroedinger. Dirac, who predicted the existence of antiparticles (i.e., the positron, discovered in 1932), shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Schroedinger for the discovery of new and fruitful forms of atomic theory. The second edition, in which "Dirac has not only revised but has largely rewritten the whole book, and has tried to give the development of the theory in a rather less abstract form without making any sacrifices in exactness of expression or in the logical character of the development. Some new subject-matter has also been inserted, the largest addition being a chapter on field theory.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. x, 257, [1] pp. Original cloth. Spine rubbed. Small tears at top of spine. Vertical crease in spine. Good. NOTE ABOUT PHOTOS: I can send more photos of the binding, upon request, First Edition. SIGNED BY PAUL DIRAC "P. A. M. Dirac", on the title page. "The first complete exposition of the general formalism of quantum mechanics, presented in a logically consistent and axiomatic fashion, based on the notions of 'observables' and 'states' as primitives, was Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics. The impact of the book on the generation of modern physicists is perhaps best characterized by a remark made by Lennard-Jones when the book appeared: 'An eminent European physicist, who is fortunate enough to possess a bound set of reprints of Dr. Dirac's original papers, has been heard to refer to them affectionately as his 'Bible'. Those not so fortunate have now at any rate an opportunity of acquiring a copy of the authorized version' " (Jammer, Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics, pp. 366-67). "The latest and most successful creation of theoretical physics, namely Quantum Mechanics, is fundamentally different in its principles from the two programmes which we will briefly call Newton's and Maxwell's. For the quantities that appear in its laws make no claim to describe Physical Reality itself, but only the probabilities for the appearance of a particular physical reality on which our attention is fixed. Dirac, to whom, in my opinion, we owe the most logically perfect presentation of this theory. . . " (Albert Einstein, "Maxwell's Influence on the Development of the Conception of Physical Reality", in James Clerk Maxwell, a Commemoration Volume, 1931, pp. 72-73). "Dirac was one of the greatest theoretical physicists in the twentieth century. He is best known for his important and elegant contributions to the formulation of quantum mechanics. . . . Present expositions of quantum mechanics largely rely on his masterpiece The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1930)" (D.S.B. 17: 224). Paul Dirac shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory." The International Series of Monographs on Physics. Signed by Author(s).

Dirac, Paul A. M. (1902-84). The principles of quantum mechanics. x, 257, [1]pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930. 237 x 156 mm. Original cloth, dust-jacket (minor wear and chipping). Very fine copy. From the library of British applied mathematician Louis Melville Milne-Thomson (1891-1974), with his signature on the dust-jacket and front free endpaper, and a few annotations in the margins. First Edition of Dirac's classic treatise on quantum mechanics, containing "the first complete exposition of the general formalism of quantum mechanics, presented in a logically consistent and axiomatic fashion" (Jammer, Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics, p. 366). "Except for Darwin's Origin of Species, no book since Newton's Principia explained so much of so wide a realm of nature. It is difficult to think of another physics text that conveys more effectively the power of a simple, logical presentation. Probably no other book has ever given its readers a greater appreciation of the aesthetic dimension of theoretical physics" (Schweber, QED and the Men who Made It, p. 573). "Present expositions of quantum mechanics largely rely on [Dirac's] masterpiece The Principles of Quantum Mechanics" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). This very fine copy in dust-jacket is from the library of Louis Melville Milne-Thomson, author of several classic textbooks on applied mathematics such as The Calculus of Finite Differences (1933), and developer of the Milne-Thomson circle theorem and the Milne-Thomson method for finding a holomorphic function. The excellent condition of Milne-Thomson's copy of Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics suggests that he did not use it in his own work, despite the presence of a few marginal notes in what is presumably his hand. .

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 328 Size: Book.

FIRST EDITION. Original cloth, author and title in gilt on spine; an excellent copy. A WORK DESERVING OF THE NOBEL PRIZE DIRAC, P[aul] A[drien] M[aurice] The principles of quantum mechanics. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1930. 8vo. Original cloth; an excellent copy. First edition of a classic work which confirmed Dirac's stature as a 20th-century Newton. Dirac here incorporated the previous work of Heisenberg and Schrödinger on wave mechanics into a single mathematical formalism that associates measurable quantities to operators acting on the Hilbert space of vectors that describe the state of a physical system. He proposed that the theoretically possible negative energy solutions for the electron exist as states, but these states are filled with particles of negative energy. He predicted the existence of the positron and other antipartcles, and that an electron meeting a positron can give mutual annihilation, releasing energy as a photon (light). $ 6500.00.

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