Crafting the quantum
Subtitle: Arnold Sommerfeld and the practice of theory, 1890-1926
By: Suman Seth
Series: Transformations; Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780262013734
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-371) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The physics of problems : elements of the Sommerfeld style, 1890-1910; title: Pedagogical economies : the "Sommerfeld School" and the problems of teaching; title: The kaiser's physicists : the Sommerfeld School goes to war; title: The practice of principles : Planck, experiment, and the "thermodynamic method"; title: The dynamical and the statistical : Sommerfeld, Planck, and the quantum hypothesis; title: Prinzipienfuchser and Virtuosen : theoretical physics after World War I; title: Crafting the quantum : Sommerfeld, Bohr, and the older quantum theory; title: Conclusion.