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THE main difficulty which a text-book on quantum mechanics has to overcome, namely, to present the maximum of physical results with the minimum of mathematical formalism, is very well overcome in this book, by clever navigation between the Scylla of rigour and the Charybdis of obscurity.

Introductory Quantum Mechanics

By Prof. Vladimir Rojansky. Pp. x+544. (New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc.; London, Glasgow and Bombay: Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1939.) 5.50 dollars; 22s. 6d. net.

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[Book Reviews]. Nature 144, 743–744 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144743c0

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