Quantum Mechanics / Hendrik F. Hameka

M R C McDowell

Hendrik F Hameka 1981 New York: John Wiley xii + 387 pp price £24 This is a revised and updated version of the author's 1967 text Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. It was then thought particularly suitable for chemists, and indeed the new version has a flavour not unlike that of the classic Quantum Chemistry by Eyring, Walter and Kimball.

Kurt Gottfried

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Richard L. Hall

H. F. Hameka New York: Harper & Row. 1967 Pp. x + 276. Price £2 15s. It is questionable whether it is good educational policy to provide ancillary rather than additional courses for undergraduates. However, the teacher who feels that chemistry students should be exposed to a special version of introductory quantum mechanics may well find that Professor Hameka's book suggests a suitable course.

Anne J. Kox

In 1923 the Austrian Erwin Schrödinger, professor of physics in Zurich, and his Dutch colleague Hendrik Lorentz, grand old man of classical physics, engaged in a fascinating correspondence on the foundations of quantum physics. In this lecture I will go back to that year, give a sketch of the personalities of Lorentz and Schrödinger and of their respective careers, and explain the importance for the history of physics of their remarkable exchange of ideas.

Eugen Merzbacher