On the theory of quantum mechanics. Offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society A, vol. 112, 1926

by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: Harrison & Sons for the Royal Society, 1926 . First edition, extremely rare offprint, of Dirac’s paper, which “is justly seen as a major contribution to quantum theory” Kragh, p. 36 . It introduced his quantum mechanical derivation of what is now called Fermi-Dirac statistics, which describes a distribution of particles now known as fermions, a name coined by Dirac in 1945 in certain systems

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