An edition of Crafting the quantum (2010)

Crafting the quantum

Arnold Sommerfeld and the practice of theory, 1890-1926

Crafting the quantum
Suman Seth, Suman Seth
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An edition of Crafting the quantum (2010)

Crafting the quantum

Arnold Sommerfeld and the practice of theory, 1890-1926

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MIT Press
Language
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Table of Contents

Introduction
The practice of problems : elements of the Sommerfeld style
Pedagogical economies : the "Sommerfeld School" and the problems of teaching
The kaiser's physicists : the Sommerfeld School goes to war
The practice of principles : Planck, experiment, and the thermodynamic method
The dynamical and the statistical : Sommerfeld, Planck, and the quantum hypothesis
Prinzipienfuchser and Virtuosen : theoretical physics after World War I
Crafting the quantum : sommerfeld, Bohr, and the older quantum theory
Conclusion : quantum mechanics and the Sommerfeld School : principles, problems
And the historiography of modern physics.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, MA
Series
Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
530.09/04
Library of Congress
QC16.S76 S48 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23534076M
ISBN 13
9780262013734
LCCN
2009022212
OCLC/WorldCat
396181482

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