Principles of Quantum Mechanics

One of the best textbooks I have ever read. While I have yet to complete the book, the explanations are very detailed and the contents go way beyond what my uni teaches (at least for a 3rd year physics undergrad). The mathematics is rather rigorous and the author's writing style is easy to understand. Love it.

Well, what can I say? I bought the book for my son who is a 2nd year Masters degree student studying Physics at Manchester University, and while this book is way beyond me, he reckons it is just what he needs and can't do without it. It is cheaper at Amazon that the specialist bookshops too! so he's really happy with it. (Update 23 Oct 2014) Well, as the person using this book got a 1st and has gone on to start his Doctorate in Nuclear Physics, so the content has served him well.

Extremely well written. You will need to be grounded in classical mechanics and have a reasonable grounding in undergrad mathematics to benefit from the book, it is aimed at "all" levels but clearly requires you to come prepared. All the necessary mathematics is covered in this book, as well as revision of key concepts from classical mechanics (Hamiltonian etc.).

Functions only to turn pages, goto page numbers, return to reading page or beginning. Scrolling/page-turning difficult to control. Seems to sync devices and +/- size ok. Chat rep tried to be helpful and will refer to techs. Refunded and resold to no avail. Looked like just a load of page scans. Not hopeful so just refunded and spent money on a pdf from Springer. Shame to treat a good reference book like this.

The book itself is very good, first chapter builds the mathematical preliminaries, the next two chapters motivated quantum mechanics (from a historical context), this is where I am at. As for the book itself it arrived within a week of ordering in VERY good condition, like new really. I am very happy with this purchase.

As someone with a post graduate in Mathematics I wanted a technical book to teach the basics of QM. This book is just that; an excellent introduction to a fascinating subject.

Fantastic book. Great detail that is left out in other books. The mathematical introduction chapter is definitely worth reading through.

A beautifully written book. The only text I have seen which introduces the reader to the postulates of quantum mechanics properly and rigorously, the exercises aren't bad either.

Beautiful book and in pristine conditions. I am very happy with the order.

This book is pretty much as described. The thing which attracted me to it is that its introductory chapter is 73 pages of the mathematics you'll need. For years I have been looking for something like this, not wanting to teach myself all pure and applied mathematics up to graduate level just to make sure I had what was needed for quantum mechanics (and special relativity, but that, as the saying goes, is a different story). So I put off teaching myself the quantum mechanics I had been wanting to learn since high school but didn't because I didn't continue my maths/science degree. Now I'm confident I have what I need. The specialist maths (math to Americans) is not much beyond first year linear algebra with complex vector spaces. It would have been nice to know just how little maths you really need decades ago, but I'm happy now. My only complaint is the small number of worked out solutions to the problems in the appendix. It is quite an old book, for those to whom such trivialities are deal breakers, but then you don't have to be at the cutting edge to treat the basics, do you? Highly recommended to anyone who, like me, wants to learn only so much maths as is absolutely necessary, and not one bit more. Life is too short to learn everything, but understanding quantum mechanics, or understanding you don't understand more clearly than a popular science book can communicate, is surely worth the effort.

Fantastico. È da 10 anni che da ingegnere autodidatta provo a capire la MQ. Ho provato il sakuray, il griffith, lezioni su youtube e altro con risultati parziali. Questo testo parte da zero con oltre 100 pagine di basi matematiche e richiami di fisica classica e ti porta passo passo a un livello universitario di MQ con tanto di equazione di dirac, integrale sui cammini , spin, metodo della perturbazione dipendente dal tempo, principio di indeterminazione, di esclusione di pauli, ecc.. non manca nulla per una solida base. Mi ero quasi rassegnato finché ho trovato questo libro

Por ahora sólo he leído los primeros capítulos y en principio se puede seguir (por ahora) si se tiene conocimientos algo buenos de matemáticas. PERO (siempre hay un pero) las fórmulas son ilegibles en una tableta o móvil. Salen en un tamaño muy reducido, ilegible. Para leerlo hay que hacer doble click en cada fórmula. Entonces la fórmula pasa a ocupar toda la pantalla y se puede leer, pero pierdes la referencia de las anteriores y posteriores. Si aumentas el tamaño de la letra, se aumenta la letra, pero las fórmulas continúan igual de pequeñas. Dado que mi tiempo de lectura es en el metro, esto me imposibilita su lectura. Sólo lo puedo leer en el Kindle del PC de mi casa, pero no tengo tiempo de leerlo en casa. No me gusta comentar un libro sin haberlo terminado, pero creo que es importante que se conozca este mal formateo del libro-

If you are beggining to study QM, it may be a little hard getting used with concepts and ideas. This book has helped me to clarify my conceptual doubts on the subject, thanks to the well-defined structure of the information (mathematical review and classical mechanics first, in contrast with many other text that mix those ideas with the common problems in QM). The delivering took place 3 days before the expectation date, which was fantastic!