Crafting the quantum : Arnold Sommerfeld and the practice of theory, 1890-1926 / Suman Seth.
Seth, Suman, 1974-
2010
QC16.S76 S48 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Crafting the quantum : Arnold Sommerfeld and the practice of theory, 1890-1926 / Suman Seth.
Author Seth, Suman, 1974-
ISBN 9780262013734 (alk. paper)
0262013738 (alk. paper)
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
Language English
Description viii, 378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number QC16.S76 S48 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.09/04
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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Introduction
The physics of problems : elements of the Sommerfeld style, 1890-1910
Pedagogical economies : the "Sommerfeld School" and the problems of teaching
The kaiser's physicists : the Sommerfeld School goes to war
The practice of principles : Planck, experiment, and the "thermodynamic method"
The dynamical and the statistical : Sommerfeld, Planck, and the quantum hypothesis
Prinzipienfuchser and Virtuosen : theoretical physics after World War I
Crafting the quantum : Sommerfeld, Bohr, and the older quantum theory
Conclusion.

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