Product Description
Simple enough for students yet sufficiently comprehensive to serve as a reference for working physicists, this classic text is celebrated for its clarity and coherence of presentation as well as the author’s fluid and literate style. Subjects include a detailed treatment of formalism and its interpretation, an analysis of simple systems, symmetries and invariance, methods of approximation, and a review of the elements of relativistic quantum mechanics. "Strongly recommended"—American Journal of Physics.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 15 reviews)

A superb eposition by Decleva Piero (Trieste, Italy)

5 Stars
July 13, 2009
Messiah is one of the first QM books I bought, (french edition) almost 40 years ago. I found it pretty difficult at the time, yet after many years and many books, it's hard to find another presentation definitely superior. It's not for beginners, but you can count on it, any time you look back for somehing you find a very clear and complete exposition. You're groping for an angular momentum formula? It's there, no need to go for an angular momentum book. Yet it is not a bible, it's stylish, lucid, general. It's long, not verbose, because it explains carefully, with details, and mathematically rigorous (without going into functional analysis). True, it lacks some newer topics, but with a firm grasp of the fundamentals, it's easy to get them from separate sources. The Dover edition is a real gem.

Great Value! by T. Sedai

5 Stars
October 30, 2008
This is one of the best quantum books I have used (I am using 4 for my current class and have used 3 other books in past classes). This book is very clear and is the best value for the cost of the book. Much better than other books that were 15 times the price. It is very thorough and has good explanations. Highly recommended.

The best Quantum Mechanics book that has ever been written. For serious people only by Nihat Yildiz (Sivas, TURKEY)

5 Stars
June 06, 2006
The best Quantum Mechanics book that has ever been written. For serious people only. I, as a university physics lecturer of 22 years of experience, very very strongly recommend this book to every serious student. But, these two volume books must be studied with an endless patience. My way of studying it is: two pages a day. Therefore, you can complete them in two years time. By the way, if someone owns a solutions manual these two volume QM books, please notify me at nyildiz@cumhuriyet.edu.tr.

Excellent Reference Book by D. Schmidt (Colorado Springs and Iowa City)

4 Stars
April 07, 2006
Although the presentation of the material still assumes a knowledge of classical mechanics and magnetism (an approach that has since been abandoned in quantum mechanics texts), the book is remarkably self-contained (the exercises, however, are not). The exposition is very clear, and the early part of the book uses a historical framework while the remainder covers the usual material in the usual way. I would not suggest using the book as a main text for learning quantum mechanics, but I've used it several times as a reference book (and a very affordable one at that). You could think of it as a poor man's Cohen-Tannoudji.

Great Buy-review by author of Quantum Mechanics Demystified by David McMahon

4 Stars
February 20, 2006
With the high price of textbooks these days this little gem is a fantastic buy. The book is thick-think of getting both volumes of Cohen-Tannoudji wrapped into one. It begins with the standard review of "old" quantum theory, carefully explaining the photoelectric effect and all that. The presentation is nice, detailed, and physically insightful. It also includes things like the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rules that might get left behind in modern treatments. After this he has an excellent chapter on "matter waves and the Schrodinger equation", with an excellent discussion of wave packets and quanitzation of atomic energy levels. I found this chapter alone made purchasing the book worthwhile. The rest of the book goes into the formal development of quantum theory and studies central potentials, scattering, the harmonic oscillator, angular momentum and all that. At $19 bucks you can't go wrong buying this book.

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