Problems of Atomic Dynamics

In 1925-26, the future Nobel prize-winner Max Born presented two series of lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: one on the structure of the atom, the other on the lattice theory of rigid bodies. This volume contains the text of those lectures, during the course of which Born introduced new developments in quantum theory as they occurred: Pauli's fourth quantum number, Dirac's formalism, and elements of his own work on a general operational calculus. Appropriate for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, Problems of Atomic Dynamics represents a historic view of the foundations of modern quantum theory. 43 figures.