Springer Principles of Quantum Mechanics

1. One of the best books to learn QM.2. Excellent printing and binding quality. (Printed in the Netherlands)3. Authentic hard-cover binding with pages stitched together.4. This edition is printed in normal paper unlike the older editions which were printed in glossy paper.5. The only issue that still remains from the previous prints is the font-size. Some times, the equations are printed with very small fonts.

This book advanced my understanding of QM, but drained my bank. Too bad textbooks are so expensive, may just have to skip meals for the next few months, to make up for the expense. Worth it, though.

If you are beggining to study QM, it may be a little hard getting used with concepts and ideas. This book has helped me to clarify my conceptual doubts on the subject, thanks to the well-defined structure of the information (mathematical review and classical mechanics first, in contrast with many other text that mix those ideas with the common problems in QM). The delivering took place 3 days before the expectation date, which was fantastic!

This book is pretty much as described. The thing which attracted me to it is that its introductory chapter is 73 pages of the mathematics you'll need. For years I have been looking for something like this, not wanting to teach myself all pure and applied mathematics up to graduate level just to make sure I had what was needed for quantum mechanics (and special relativity, but that, as the saying goes, is a different story). So I put off teaching myself the quantum mechanics I had been wanting to learn since high school but didn't because I didn't continue my maths/science degree. Now I'm confident I have what I need. The specialist maths (math to Americans) is not much beyond first year linear algebra with complex vector spaces. It would have been nice to know just how little maths you really need decades ago, but I'm happy now.My only complaint is the small number of worked out solutions to the problems in the appendix. It is quite an old book, for those to whom such trivialities are deal breakers, but then you don't have to be at the cutting edge to treat the basics, do you?Highly recommended to anyone who, like me, wants to learn only so much maths as is absolutely necessary, and not one bit more. Life is too short to learn everything, but understanding quantum mechanics, or understanding you don't understand more clearly than a popular science book can communicate, is surely worth the effort.

Ottimo libro per studiare meccanica quantistica. Approfondita la teoria che spiega tutto e non dà niente per scontato e di utilità gli esercizi e esempi presenti.