Physics Bulletin

Foundations of Quantum Dynamics

J. L. Martin

Published Sep 1, 1975• 16 citations

Abstract

S M Blinder London: Academic Press 1974 pp ix + 226 price £6.50 As is usual in a book of this kind, there are many minor ways in which the reviewer feels that the book could have been improved. Why, for example, include an exposition of special relativity when the scope is 'limited to nonrelativistic wave mechanics'?

DOI: 10.1088/0031-9112/26/9/047

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