The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - Hardcover

Hughes, R. I. G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674843916 ISBN 13: 9780674843912

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1989

Synopsis

R. I. G. Hughes offers the first detailed and accessible analysis of the Hilbert-space models used in quantum theory and explains why they are so successful. He goes on to show how the very suitability of Hilbert spaces for modeling the quantum world gives rise to deep problems of interpretation, and makes suggestions about how they can be overcome.

About this title

About the Author

R.I.G. Hughes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina.

Review

A formidable and intelligent account of the (partial) Hilbert-space formalization of quantum mechanics and the inevitable philosophical ambiguities that result...A marvelous book.
--P.D. Skiff (Choice)

The power and elegance of the quantum-mechanical arguments are excellently portrayed and the reader...could not help being impressed by the sheer intellectual beauty of the subject.
--Alastai R. Rae (Times Higher Education Supplement)

[This book] complements the material covered in standard textbooks on quantum theory, in which the issue of interpretation of the theory is too often neglected.
--Eduardo Sanchez Velasco (Science Books And Films)

Hughes has written the best self-contained introduction to the foundations of quantum mechanics yet to appear...Hughes is clearly a gifted teacher, and a casual look at the book may suggest that it is primarily a textbook. In fact, a definitive interpretive perspective is developed throughout the book.
--Allen Stairs (Synthese)

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674843916
• ISBN 13: 9780674843912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384