Problems Atomic Dynamics by Born Max, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD; FIRST EDITION, thus; some minor rubbing on the front cover; bookplate and stamp of previous owners inside; pages are clean, white and unmarked and the binding is tight; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Owner's name and date on inside front page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Frederick Ungar Edition / First Print (first published bu MIT in 1926). Hardback copy in black cloth boards with white lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket as issued. 200pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (46/5).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 200 pp. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth. The edges rubbed and spine faded. Prior owner names on the fly leaf; first few leaves creased.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xiv, 1 leaf, 200 pp; 43 figs. Original cloth. Signature of former owner on front pastedown, else Near Fine. Max Born: Nobel Prize, Physics, 1954, 'for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction.' 'In 1925-26, the late Max Born gave two sets of lectures at M.I.T., one on the structure of the atom, the other on the lattice theory of rigid bodies. Problems of Atomic Dynamics contains the text of both sets. What gives this volume its remarkable interest is just those dates: 1925-26. This must have been, by all accounts, the headiest period in twentieth-century physics, and Max Born was one of the leaders of the ferment. As Norbert Wiener remembers, 'When Professor Born came to the United States [for these lectures in 1925] he was enormously excited about the new basis Heisenberg had just given for the quantum theory of the atom.' These lectures represent perhaps the most vivid written record of the transition between the 'old' quantum theory of Bohr, and the 'new' theory. 'At the time I began this course of lectures,' Born writes, 'Heisenberg's first paper on the new quantum theory had just appeared. Here his masterly treatment gave the quantum theory an entirely new turn. The paper of Jordan and myself, in which we recognized the matrix calculus as the proper formulation of Heisenberg's ideas, was in press, and the manuscript of a third paper by the three of us was almost completed.' Even as the lecture series progressed, Born became familiar with new results, which he introduced into his presentation: Pauli's fourth quantum number, Dirac's formalism, his own work on a general operational calculus. And yet, in spite of the conditions of revolutionary changes in physics that year -- in which established ancien regime principles were collapsing almost monthly -- the theory is developed with a cool elegance and with a formal completeness which may be regarded as a 'limiting case' of its current state. These lectures represent the foundations of quantum theory, and they have withstood the tests of time -- the tests of more than forty years of experimental evidence' (M.I.T. Press Web site).

Max Born (1882-1970) was a German theoretical physicist credited with bringing the theory of quantum dynamics to the United States in the form of a series of lectures delivered at MIT and contained within the present volume. At the time I began this course of lectures, HeisenbergÕs first paper on the new quantum theory had just appeared. Here his masterly treatment gave the quantum theory an entirely ne turnÉ As the course proceeded, further achievements of the new method came to my notice. I was able to introduce some of them into the lectures. PauliÕs theory of the hydrogen atom is a case in point.Ó (Preface). Octavo. 200 pp. 43 figs. in text. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth, a bit rubbed. Binding slightly loose. Signature of previous owner. A very good copy. First edition. ÒI wrote the original text in German. It was then translated into English by Dr. W P Allis and Mr. Hans Muller, and read through by me.Ó (Preface) The original German text appeared after the English translation.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 200 pp. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth. Light edge-wear, unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition MIT 1926. Physicist Albert Potter Wills' copy, with his owner signature and a bookplate commemorating the posthumous gifting of the book by Wills' wife to Henry Abraham Boorse, Wills' PhD student who later worked on the Manhattan Project. VG minus. Some fraying to spine tips otherwise moderate wear, dulling/fading to spine. Pages yellowed with some minor blemishes; some bottom edges affected by a little nicking/creasing. Binding reasonably firm with incipient cracking at front hinge.