Crafting the Quantum Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926

Name: Crafting the Quantum Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926
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ISBN: 9780262013734

ISBN-10: 0262013738

ISBN-13: 9780262013734

Edition: 2010

Authors: Suman Seth

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Arnold Sommerfeld (18681951) was among the most significant contributors to the birth of modern theoretical physics. At the University of Munich, beginning in 1906, he trained two generations of theoretical physicists. Eight of his students (among them Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, and Hans Bethe) went on to win the Nobel Prize. In Crafting the Quantum, Suman Seth offers the first English-language book-length study of Sommerfeld's work, presenting an intellectual and cultural history of theoretical physics in Germany viewed through the lens of Sommerfeld's research and pedagogy. Seth examines the practical origins of many of the problems undertaken by Sommerfeld and his school, a…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/5/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Suman Seth is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction






The Physics of Problems


Elements of the Sommerfeld Style, 1890-1910



Pedagogical Economies


The ï¿½Sommerfeld Schoolï¿½ and the Problems of Teaching



The Kaiser's Physicists


The Sommerfeld School Goes to War






The Practice of Principles


Planck, Experiment, and the ï¿½Thermodynamic Methodï¿½



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


Notes


Bibliography


Index