This book is a mathematical study of the new quantum theory, designed for those who are new to the subject. In the first four chapters the treatment may be described as classical. The notation employed is that familiar to all students of physics.
David Park McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd. 1964. Pp. xv + 547. Price 83s. 6d. There are surely few branches of physics which have been so amply, and repetitively, documented as the basic principles of quantum mechanics. Suppressing an almost overwhelming impression of déjà vu, one opens this new entry to the field to find that the text is so organized as to present the discussion of the theory in Part I, and to segregate the applications to Part II, an arrangement for which there is much to be said and which, when as thoughtfully carried out as in the example under review, allows the student, and the lecturer, the opportunity to mix his own blend of theory and application.
By I. I. Goldman, V. D. Krivchenkov, V. I. Kogan and V. M. Galitskii. Translated, edited and arranged by D. ter Haar. London : Cleaver-Hume Press Ltd. Pp. 394. Price 42s. It has always been accepted that one cannot learn mathematics without solving a large number of problems, and the same is true of mathematical physics. Unfortunately the problems in many books on quantum mechanics are either purely mathematical or else present extensions of the subject matter of the book, which space has prevented from incorporation in the text.
F Constantinescu and E Magyari Oxford: Pergamon 1971 pp vii + 410 price £5.70 This is a translation of a book apparently first published in eastern Europe two or three years ago and aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning research students. It contains 319 solved problems, arranged in a dozen subject groups which include not only reasonably high level treatments of the standard topics (mathematical formalism, onedimensional models, angular momentum, atoms and molecules, various approximation methods) but also large sections on systems of identical particles and second quantization, on scattering theory and on relativistic quantum mechanics (the last two subjects together occupying over a quarter of the book).