The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner
Subtitle: Part A: The Scientific Papers
By: edited by Arthur S. Wightman
Series: The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, Part A: The Scientific Papers. Part B: Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers -- A / 1; Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, Part A: The Scientific Papers. Part B: Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers -- A / 1.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Springer
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 719
ISBN-13: 9783662027813; 9783642081545
Subjects: Quantum theory; Physics; Group theory; Group Theory and Generalizations; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
Description: Eugene Wigner is one of the few giants of 20th-century physics. His early work helped to shape quantum mechanics, he laid the foundations of nuclear physics and nuclear engineering, and he contributed significantly to solid-state physics. His philosophical and political writings are widely known. All his works will be reprinted in Eugene Paul Wigner's Collected Workstogether with descriptive annotations by outstanding scientists. The present volume begins with a short biographical sketch followed by Wigner's papers on group theory, an extremely powerful tool he created for theoretical quantum physics. They are presented in two parts. The first, annotated by B. Judd, covers applications to atomic and molecular spectra, term structure, time reversal and spin. In the second, G. Mackey introduces to the reader the mathematical papers, many of which are outstanding contributions to the theory of unitary representations of groups, including the famous paper on the Lorentz group.