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This is by far the best textbook I have ever seen on quantum mechanics! Those chapters on mathematical foundations on QM are just so precious and priceless!

I don’t want this book to end.

"My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible."

This woman right here is my mamma. My mother is a woman with love in her heart, my mother is indestructible.

"My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible."

“I want to ask you something, I can’t remember behind the last ugly thing. Was she very beautiful, Samuel?
To you she was because you built her. I don’t think you ever saw her, only your own creation.”

They say the smart man is the silent man in the room but I also think that a man without words is a man without thoughts.

American literature is really captivating and Steinbeck is the prophet who is giving me this message!

Jazz, Data and Perturbation theory are the way to go…

I am astonished. I will never watch the godfather the same way!

Jancsi. What are you?

At this rate I wouldn’t be surprised if I lose my mind with everything that it endures and processes.

“Speak the truth, write with clarity and defended to your very end.”

Mesmerizing…

My students call me Herr Othman!

I don’t like this book as in I like it so much but I don’t like the doors of thoughts that it is opening for me. I got quite mesmerized that I took on a ramble to clear out my head and how I feel about it. I can’t quite understand why it just made me sad and made me think of the “simulation”-isms. I think it made me sad cuz it crushed some ideas I took in high regards. Such as love.

ich liebe seine Philosophie, denn sie deckt sich wirklich mit dem, was ich denke, oder besser gesagt, wie ich denke und argumentiere! Das wird eine wirklich spannende und interessante Reise!

Jetzt, wo das Semester vorbei ist, weiß ich, was ich will, und zwar mit David Hume auf diese Reise gehen. Aufgeregt!

One thing that attracts me the most is how he says that we have no actual conception of the self but only of a bundle of sensations associated with the self.

Hume argued that desire is the motive for human behavior rather than reason and there aren’t any innate ideas but only ideas that are generated from what we directly experience. Stating that rationality cannot help to justify inductive reasoning as well as causality cuz we human beings get our assumptions from our customs and constant conjunction rather than logic.

I completed Chapter 1, essential for mastering the mathematical foundations of Quantum Mechanics. While I haven't fully mastered it, I encountered numerous new concepts I previously thought irrelevant or unrelated to QM, but they are crucial. The Dirac notation is elegant, and Hermitian operators, their diagonalization as well as Eigenvalue Problems are fascinating, albeit still challenging for me.

I’m terrified even to think about the future, because the future is once again loneliness, once again this stagnant useless life.

“Lord in heaven I thank thee; it is after all better that he believe I am a monster than that he lose faith in Thee”

1 am In the hotel room in Berlin, with solitude cigarettes and this gem of a book.

There’s a surprise coming from my author persona.

Love’s gonna get you killed, but pride’s gonna be the death of you and me.

You know what is crazy & sad? Our out of date lecturers in my bachelor didn't even bother to teach us Fourier transformation, which led to making me feel stupid when I first encountered it. Anxious to see where to learn (I don't like learning on YouTube or some other website, I like books. Old school.) I found this book, and it is exactly what I wanted!

This one is not it but it’s what my professor’s recommendation and his lecture notes are largely based on this textbook. It’s irritating and frustrating how there are so many material on QM and each with its own way of writing and organizing with various interpretations.

Nature, a beautiful contradiction. So magnificently complex, it splinters into a kaleidoscope of oddities. The human mind, for all its vaunted prowess, flounders in the face of such exquisite chaos. Perhaps that's the true beauty, the point where even our grand illusions of control crumble to dust.

I am short for words to describe how much I love this series of books by the profound and clever physicist Jakob Schwichtenberg!
I’m always anxious when I open a standard textbook and I see lots of strangeness in them without connecting the dots or really understanding everything thoroughly (it’s possible but it will take a lot of time). This series is an aid to my perfectionist mind.