Identifying old quantum mechanics text book

[Lord Jestocost]

Were there some previous textbook on old quantum mechanics?

THE NEW QUANTUM MECHANICS by GEORGE BIRTWISTLE (CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1928)


PREFACE
This book is concerned with the development of quantum mechanics during the past two years. A detailed account is given of the matrix theory of Heisenberg, Born and Jordan, the g-number theory of Dirac, and the wave mechanics of Schrödinger. The earlier chapters are devoted to a restatement of the Landé theory of the multiplets in a form which is in consonance with the new mechanics which is to follow; some later chapters are given up to the de Broglie theory of particles and their waves, and to the new statistics of Bose, Einstein, Fermi and Dirac. The book closes with the resonance theory of the helium spectrum lately given by Heisenberg, and with the new speculations of Bohr on the limitations imposed by the quantum theory upon the possibilities of experimental observation.

G. B.
HOTEL PHOENIX, COPENHAGEN 1 October 1927

 

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THE NEW QUANTUM MECHANICS by GEORGE BIRTWISTLE (CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1928)


PREFACE
This book is concerned with the development of quantum mechanics during the past two years. A detailed account is given of the matrix theory of Heisenberg, Born and Jordan, the g-number theory of Dirac, and the wave mechanics of Schrödinger. The earlier chapters are devoted to a restatement of the Landé theory of the multiplets in a form which is in consonance with the new mechanics which is to follow; some later chapters are given up to the de Broglie theory of particles and their waves, and to the new statistics of Bose, Einstein, Fermi and Dirac. The book closes with the resonance theory of the helium spectrum lately given by Heisenberg, and with the new speculations of Bohr on the limitations imposed by the quantum theory upon the possibilities of experimental observation.

G. B.
HOTEL PHOENIX, COPENHAGEN 1 October 1927

This is earlier than the book of Condon and Morse! (but still on "modern" quantum mechanics)