On the Theory of Quantum Mechanics. Offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society A, vol. 112, 1926

by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

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London: Harrison & Sons for the Royal Society, 1926 . / First edition, inscribed presentation offprint, of the paper carrying three achievements of lasting consequence: Dirac’s quantum-mechanical derivation of what is now called Fermi–Dirac statistics, the first articulation of the symmetry principle that separates fermions from bosons, and the perturbative groundwork for what he would formalise as quantum electrodynamics six months later.

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