The Quantum Cookbook

The book combines popular and textbook presentation.

It aims not to teach readers how to do quantum mechanics but rather helps them understand how to think about quantum mechanics.

The real source of confusion in quantum mechanics does not originate in the mathematics, but in our understanding of what a scientific theory is supposed to represent.

1 Planck's Derivation of E = hn: The Quantisation of Energy; 2 Einstein's Derivation of E = mc2: The Equivalence of Mass and Energy; 3 Bohr's Derivation of the Rydberg Formula: Quantum Numbers and Quantum Jumps; 4 De Broglie's Derivation of /\\\\ = h/p: Wave-particle Duality; 5 Schrodinger's Derivation of the Wave Equation: Quantisation as an Eigenvalue Problem; 6 Born's Interpretation of the Wavefunction: Quantum Probability; 7 Heisenberg, Bohr, Robertson, and the Uncertainty Principle : The Interpretation of Quantum Uncertainty; 8 Heisenberg's Derivation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle: The Stability of Matter and the Periodic Table; 9 Dirac's Derivation of the Relativistic Wave Equation: Electron Spin and Antimatter; 10 Dirac, Von Neumann, and the Derivation of the Quantum Formalism: State Vectors in Hilbert Space; 11 Von Neumann and the Problem of Quantum Measurement: The 'Collapse of the Wavefunction'; 12 Einstein, Bohm, Bell, and the Derivation of Bell's Inequality: Entanglement and Quantum Non-locality