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Summary: Probably one of the best titles about quantum mechanics!
Review: This amazing book gives a very good introduction into both physical and mathematical backgrounds of this somehow difficult subject. No further than undergraduate knowledge in maths and theoretical physics is needed to explore even tricky problems- the book gives you all the instruments you need.
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Summary: As complete as a book on QM can get
Review: This book starts from scratch and works through every aspects of QM someone who studies QM is supposed to know. My advice would be to read every single line of this book, including the small print explanations and the complements. You'll be amazed at what you'll learn.
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Summary: Solving every problem in QM just makes a mess.
Review: This is not a textbook. It is a reference book for those who have already had 1st year graduate quantum mechanics. It appears that the authors tried to solve every basic QM problem in the hopes that their students would never have to apply the often poorly communicated lessons. The appendixes associated with each chapter are usefull if your problem is covered. If you want to learn 3D, nonrelativistic QM, I would suggest reading Liboff's Intro to QM book front to back a few times instead.
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Summary: A simultaneously pedagogical and comprehensive book
Review: This is probably one of the best Quantum Mechanics books on the market. Written by Nobel prize winner Cohen-Tannoudji, has a central core with a very detailed explanation of the standard issues and lots of appendices covering exercises, applications and extensions. Just superb !
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Summary: THE BEST QM BOOK FOR STARTERS
Review: This is the best book on QM that any person can lay his hands on,and it is a shame it is not introduced as a first cource in QM for every science student interested in the subject.Once you go through the book,you may even be able to solve all classical problems quantum mechanically!! The plus points of this book which other books lack:
complete and elaborate discussion of all mathematical tricks and tools needed in chapter 2,clear layout of the postulates of QM in chapter 3 so that one faces no conceptual difficulty in the remainder of the book,angular momentum addition and clebsch-Gordan coeeffecient calculation in CH.10,electromagnetic interaction with matter in chapter 13(complement),clearly explained probabaility calculation concepts for identical particles ,Ch14.,and a understandable tratment of scattering ,partial traces and the wigner-eckart theorm with applications. I would recommend this book for any one who wishes to learn QM without laziness(the book is tiringly comprised of 2 volumes)before touching any other book in this subject(others an only lead you astray).the book is self suffecient in all respects and doesnt make a single step jump(no wonder its shear volume). Good luck!
ganesh
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Summary: Simply the BEST (and the most expensive)
Review: This is, in my opinion, the best introductory book on non-relativistic quantum mechanics. It starts from the very basics, either on physical or mathematical aspects. It has a wonderful collection of worked out problems where one can really understand the lectures. It's also a great reference. I just can't figure out Why it is so expensive. I believe I bought it 2 years ago by half the price. (First-hand). Anyway, a must have for every Physics student.
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Summary: By far the best QM text I have seen
Review: Use of the Dirac notation allows a clean and concise treatment. The book makes QM easy to understand, and it is comprehensive.
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Summary: This book is so bad it hurts!!!
Review: What's wrong with all you people?!? This book was used in my undergraduate QM course, and I HATED it. Yes, it is very complete and full of stuff, but it is impossible for the beginner to follow. It has NO simple examples to teach the basics. This book had me tripping and stumbling over the material. The thing is so huge it's impossible to read it all or find what you are looking for. This book may be a good reference book, but only a robot could learn QM from it. Quantum Mechanics by Shankar is much more concise, more colloquial, and has examples to bring things home. P.S. I am not stupid! This book stinks!!
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Summary: Perhaps the most didatic texbook in QM
Review: Written by one of the most proeminent physicists in quantum optics, this book shows, besides his
competence, his very high level of didactic. The problems are well-choosen and there are plenty of examples to make everything clear. It's worth to have it!
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Summary: Complete but very disorganized
Review: Yes, this book has everything a graduate student needs to know about quantum mechanics. But this book is very poorly written. The organization is shoddy, and the style is haphazard. If you want a really good graduate level quantum mechanics book, get Modern Quantum Mechanics by Sakuri. That book is clear and concise, much more amenable to learning than this one. There is simply no comparison. My belief is that readers touting this book haven't seen Sakuri, so they don't know any better. The Cohen-Tannoudji book better functions as a reference, rather than a textbook.
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