Arnold J Sommerfeld

Arnold Sommerfeld (1868--1951) was among the most significant contributors to the birth of modern theoretical physics. At the University of Munich, beginning in 1906, he trained two generations of theoretical physicists. Eight of his students (among them Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, and Hans B...

Trans. from German by Ernst Strauss. From the intro: "We do not really deal with mathematical physics, but with _physical mathematics_; not with the mathematical formulation of physical facts, but with the physical motivation of mathematical methods."Main topic headings: Fourier Series and Integrals...

this 383 page text from 1959 is a continuation of the text "Electrodynamics" from the lectures of Arnold Sommerfeld. Divided into several chapters dealing with the following topics: Reflection and Refraction of Light, Optics of Moving Media, Theory of Dispersion, Crystal Optics, Problems of Diffract...

The subject of the book is a biography of the theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951). Although Sommerfeld is famous as a quantum theorist for the elaboration of the semi-classical atomic theory (Bohr-Sommerfeld model, Sommerfeld's fine-structure constant), his role in the history of mod...