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Description of  An Introduction to the Mathematical Structure of Quantum Mechanics: A Short Course for Mathematicians (Second Edition) (Advanced Mathematical Physics) Ed 2

The second printing contains a critical discussion of Dirac derivation of canonical quantization, which is instead deduced from general geometric structures. This book arises out of the need for Quantum Mechanics (QM) to be part of the common education of mathematics students. The mathematical structure of QM is formulated in terms of the C*-algebra of observables, which is argued on the basis of the operational definition of measurements and the duality between states and observables, for a general physical system. Read more