Eugene Paul Wigner, J. J. Griffin - Group Theory and its Application to the Quantum Mechanics of Atomic Spectra
Publisher: Acàdemic Pråss | 1959 | ISBN: 0127505504 | DJVU | 372 pages | 2.90 MB

This translation of the well-known book published by Wigner in 1931 is to be warmly welcomed. Of the first half of the book about 60 pages are devoted to matrix theory and to a resume of the relevant parts of quantum mechanics and about 120 pages to the theory of groups and their representations. The remainder of the book is concerned with the application of group theory to atomic spectra and includes three additional chapters dealing with developments, such as time inversion and the Racah coefficients, which have been made since the original publication of the book. The whole book is written with the utmost clarity, and a student wishing to acquire, for any purpose whatever, a knowledge of elementary group theory including the theory of the symmetric and the rotation groups, could not do better than read the 120 pages referred to above. The translation, too, is excellent; one or two slips have been made, but they are of a very trivial nature and do not warrant mention here.