Abstract
THE difficulties of group theory are no doubt considerable, but here is a book of reasonable size which gives a fairly elementary account of the application of the theory to quantum mechanical problems. It is now well known that Schrödinger's wave equation leads to the discrete energy levels for the hydrogen atom required by Bohr's theory of 1913, but here it is shown how group theory, when applied to angular momentum in connexion with the wave equation, leads to important con clusions as to the energy levels of more complicated systems. Quantum numbers appear in an almost magical manner.
Die gruppentheoretische Methode in der Quantem-mechanik.
Von Prof. Dr. B. L. van der Waerden. (Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften in Einzeldarstellungen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Anwendungsgebiete, herausgegeben von R. Courant, Band 36.) Pp. viii + 157. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1932.) 9.90 gold marks.
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Die gruppentheoretische Methode in der Quantem-mechanik . Nature 131, 531–532 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131531d0
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