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Dirac, Paul A.M. --- Physicists - Great Britain - Biography --- Dirac, P.A.M. --- Physicists

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Perhaps the two most important conceptual breakthroughs in twentieth century physics are relativity and quantum mechanics. Developing a theory that combines the two seamlessly is a difficult and ongoing challenge. This accessible book contains intriguing explorations of this theme by the distinguished physicists Richard Feynman and Steven Weinberg. Richard Feynman's contribution examines the nature of antiparticles, and in particular the relationship between quantum spin and statistics. In his essay, Steven Weinberg speculates on how Einstein's theory of gravitation might be reconciled with quantum theory in the final laws of physics. Both these Nobel laureates have made huge contributions to fundamental research in physics, as well as to the popularization of science. Anyone interested in the development of modern physics will find this a fascinating book.

Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Quantum theory. --- Relativity (Physics) --- Dirac, P. A. M.

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This monograph contains a functional analytic introduction to Dirac's formalism. The first part presents some new mathematical notions in the setting of triples of Hilbert spaces, mentioning the concept of Dirac basis. The second part introduces a conceptually new theory of generalized functions, integrating the notions of the first part.The last part of the book is devoted to a mathematical interpretation of the main features of Dirac's formalism. It involves a pairing between distributional bras and kets, continuum expansions and continuum matrices.

Quantum theory. --- Dirac, P. A. M. --- Quantum dynamics --- Quantum mechanics --- Quantum physics --- Physics --- Mechanics --- Thermodynamics --- Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice, --- Dirac, Paul A. M. --- Dirak, Polʹ, --- Quantum theory --- Dirac, P A M - (Paul Adrien Maurice), - 1902-1984

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This monograph contains a functional analytic introduction to Dirac's formalism. The first part presents some new mathematical notions in the setting of triples of Hilbert spaces, mentioning the concept of Dirac basis. The second part introduces a conceptually new theory of generalized functions, integrating the notions of the first part. The last part of the book is devoted to a mathematical interpretation of the main features of Dirac's formalism. It involves a pairing between distributional bras and kets, continuum expansions and continuum matrices.

Quantum theory. --- Théorie quantique --- Dirac, P. A. M. --- Quantum theory --- Dirac, P A M --- 517.98 --- Quantum dynamics --- Quantum mechanics --- Quantum physics --- Physics --- Mechanics --- Thermodynamics --- Functional analysis and operator theory --- 517.98 Functional analysis and operator theory --- Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice, --- Dirac, Paul A. M. --- Dirak, Polʹ, --- Dirac, P A M - (Paul Adrien Maurice), - 1902-1984

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J.E. Moyal has been pronounced 'one of Australia's most remarkable thinkers'. Yet, he was, essentially, a scientific maverick. Educated in a modest high school in Tel Aviv, he took himself to France to train as an engineer, statistician and mathematician and escaped to England as France fell. It was from outside academia that he entered into communication with the 'high priest' of British theoretical physics, P.A.M. Dirac, challenging him with the idea of a statistical basis of quantum mechanics. Their correspondence forms the core of this book and opens up an important and hitherto unknown chapter for physicists, mathematicians and historians of science. Moyal's classic paper, 'A statistical basis for quantum mechanics', also reproduced here in full, has come to underlie an explosion of research and to underpin an array of major technological developments. Joe Moyal emerges in this small biography as a witty and intrepid character, a scuba diver and wine connoisseur, a generous teacher and researcher, and a man whose academic life-spanning France, Ireland, Britain, the USA and Australia-intersected with some of the leading scientists of the 20th century.

Mathematicians --- Aerospace engineers --- Quantum theory --- Mathematics. --- Moyal, J. E. --- Dirac, P. A. M. --- Engineers --- Scientists --- Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice, --- Dirac, Paul A. M. --- Dirak, Polʹ, --- Moyal, José Enrique, --- Moyal, Jo, --- Moyal, Joe,