Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem
"An epoch-making work” –Max Planck
“The idea of your work springs from pure genius... I am convinced that you have made a decisive advance with your formulation of the quantum condition” -Einstein to Schrodinger on his wave equation
FIRST EDITION of all four parts of Schrodinger’s most important work on quantum theory, including the first appearance of his famous wave equation.
"Schrodinger, who in 1925 was investigating problems of quantum statistics, was 'suddenly confronted with the importance of de Broglie's ideas' in reading Einstein's Quantentheorie des einatomigen idealen Gases. He recognized that Einstein had introduced a fundamental new approach. The intensity of Schrodinger's work on the problem increased as he saw that he was on the track of 'a new atomic theory,' and it reached a peak during his winter vacation in Arosa. It soon became apparent that he had arrived at a theory that correctly represented the behaviour of the electron to a very good approximation. The result was the emergence of wave mechanics in January 1926. Schrodinger published the results of his research in a series of four papers in Annalen der Physik bearing the overall title Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem. The first installment, sent on 26 January and received by Wien the next day, contains the first appearance in the literature of his famous wave equation” (Dictionary of Scientific Biography).
Also includes Schrodinger's article, Uber das Verhaltnis der Heisenberg-Born-Jordanschen Quantenvechanik zu der meinen [On the Relation Between the Quantum Mechanics of Heisenberg, Born, and Jordan, and that of Schrodinger], vol 79, pp. 734f.
In: Annalen der Physik, Part I, pp. .361-376 (vol. 79); Part II, 489-527 (vol. 79); Part III, 437-490 (vol. 80); Part IV, 109-139 (vol 81). Leipzig, J. A. Barth, 1926. Octavo, contemporary cloth-backed boards. Three volumes. Top of spine of volume 79 frayed. A little foxing to first page of part II; a little browning to edges of parts II and IV; pp. 485-500 of volume 80 (includes end of part III) bound-in upside down. Provenance: with library and de-accession stamps on series title from the prestigious Gmelin Institute (after 1996, part of the Max Planck Institute).
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