Collected papers on wave mechanics

by Erwin Schrödinger

English, German (translation)

Genres: Physics, Science

146 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schrodinger or Erwin Schroedinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which formed the basis of wave mechanics: he formulated the wave equation (stationary and time-dependent Schrödinger equation) and revealed the identity of his development of the formalism and matrix mechanics. Schrödinger proposed an original interpretation of the physical meaning of the wave function.

He won the 1933 Nobel prize in physics with colleague Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"

Reviews

[Abhijeet Borkar · Rating 5 out of 5]

The legendary papers that took us from the classical dynamics of Hamilton to the Quantum Dynamics.

[Jemini Willis]

The famous equation that bears Erwin Schrödinger's name encapsulates
his profound contributions to quantum mechanics using wave mechanics.
This third, augmented edition of his papers on the topic contains the
six original, famous papers in which Schrödinger created and developed
the subject of wave mechanics as published in the original edition. As
the author points out, at the time each paper was written the results
of the later papers were largely unknown to him. This edition also
contains three papers that were written shortly after the original
edition was published and four lectures delivered by Schrödinger at the
Royal Institution in London in 1928. The papers and lectures in this
volume were revised by the author and translated into English, and
afford the reader a striking and valuable insight into how wave
mechanics developed.