BOOK OF THE MONTH: JUNE 2018

Title         : 100 Years of Planck's Quantum
Author     : E. C. G. Sudarshan, Ian Duck
Page         : 560 pages
Publisher  : World Scientific
Price         : Rs 23,795.30/- 
ISBN-10   : 981024309X

E. C. G. Sudarshan (Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan), who passed away on 14 May 2018, was an Indian theoretical physicist and a professor at the University of Texas. His contributions include also relations between east and west, philosophy and religion. George Sudarshan was born in Pallam, Kerala, India. 100 Years of Planck's Quantum was co-authored by him with Ian Duck.

This invaluable book takes the reader from Planck's discovery of the quantum in 1900 to the most recent interpretations and applications of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics.The introduction of the quantum idea leads off the prehistory of quantum mechanics, featuring Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Compton, and de Broglie's immortal contributions. 

A concluding chapter presents the authors' conjectures for the next 100 years of the quantum. This book is ideally suited to anyone with a junior level background in modern physics and quantum mechanics, and a cultural interest in the original sources of the greatest ideas of the greatest founders of this subject as derived from their first discovery papers. 

These papers have led, in giant strides across the whole of the twentieth century, to the revolutionary experimental advances of the last decade. The book makes accessible physically and intellectually both the deepest roots and the highest branches of nonrelativistic quantum physics. Contents: 

 Part One:
        Planck Invents the Quantum
        Einstein and Compton
        Bohr's Hydrogen Atom
        de Broglie Waves
        Kramers and Heisenberg
 Part Two:
        Heisenberg Invents Quantum Dynamics
        Born, Heisenberg and Jordan
        Dirac's Quantum Mechanics
        Schrödinger's Wave Mechanics
 Part Three:
        Born's Interpretation
        Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
        Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen
Part Four:
        Bohm and Bell, Clauser and Aspect
        Feynman Path Integral
        Hartle's Interpretation
        DeWitt's Wave Function of the Universe
        Deutsch's Quantum Computer
        The Next 100 Years
 
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