Notes on Quantum Mechanics

By Enrico Fermi

Book Overview

The lecture notes presented here in facsimile were prepared by Enrico Fermi for students taking his course at the University of Chicago in 1954. They are vivid examples of his unique ability to lecture simply and clearly on the most essential aspects of quantum mechanics. At the close of each lecture, Fermi created a single problem for his students. These challenging exercises were not included in Fermi's notes but were preserved in the notes of his students. This second edition includes a set of these assigned problems as compiled by one of his former students, Robert A. Schluter. Enrico Fermi was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226243613
• ISBN13: 9780226243610
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Genius of Fermi Shows

This is perhaps one of the best supplemental materials to follow up with either during, or shortly after one's quantum courses. This is the closest most of us will ever come to taking a course by the genius Fermi himself, and this book is generally inexpensive. If you've read the description, you'll see that this is nothing close to a self-contained text book though, so some familiarity with QM is needed if you are to make...

The previous reviewer got it wrong !

I don't know which book the previous reviewer was referring to. This is a physics book, by one of the leading physicists of this century.

A genius' version of quantum mechanics

This is a delightful booklet. It contains the handwritten notes prepared by Fermi for his lectures at Chicago. They are marvellously organized, with all derivations clearly given, together with the motivations and examples. Sometimes you find a note like that: "Comment on the relative cosmological abundance of elements", and you can only imagine what the master would produce. The table of contents of the book is quite usual,...