大学物理

创立量子力学的睿智才思（续2）－纪念矩阵力学和波动力学诞生80~81周年

赵凯华

Published Nov 1, 2006• 0 citations

Abstract

The tortuous path getting to the founding of quantum mechanics in 1925-1926 is reviewed, stressing on the historical heritage from the classical analytical mechanics and the physical ideas full of genius expressed on the way.

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