Crafting the quantum
Subtitle: Arnold Sommerfeld and the practice of theory, 1890-1926
By: Suman Seth.
Series: Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780262013734
Subjects: Sommerfeld, Arnold, -- 1868-1951; Quantum theory; Physics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The practice of problems : elements of the Sommerfeld style; 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 : quantum mechanics and the Sommerfeld School : principles, problems; title: And the historiography of modern physics.