J. Mehra andH. Rechenberg -The Historical Development of Quantum Theory. Volume 5 —Erwin Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave Mechanics. Part 1: inSchrödinger in Vienna and Zurich. 1887-1925. Part 2:The Creation of Wave Mechanics; Early Responses and Applications. 1926–1926

1992 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-122
Author(s):  
B. Bertotti
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Wave Mechanics ◽  
Erwin Schrödinger ◽  
The Creation

Introductory Considerations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John von Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Theoretical Description ◽  
Statistical Interpretation ◽  
Wave Mechanics ◽  
Transformation Theory ◽  
Max Born ◽  
Erwin Schrödinger ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
New System

This chapter presents the origins of the transformation theory and related concepts. It shows how, in 1925, a procedure initiated by Werner Heisenberg was developed by himself, Max Born, Pascual Jordan, and a little later by Paul Dirac, into a new system of quantum theory—the first complete system of quantum theory which physics has possessed. A little later Erwin Schrödinger developed the “wave mechanics” from an entirely different starting point. This accomplished the same ends, and soon proved to be equivalent to the Heisenberg, Born, Jordan, and Dirac system. On the basis of the Born statistical interpretation of the quantum theoretical description of nature, it was possible for Dirac and Jordan to join the two theories into one, the “transformation theory,” in which they make possible a grasp of physical problems which is especially simple mathematically.

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