Quantum Mechanics: A Self-Contained Course

This book is the first in a series of three volumes devoted to quantum mechanics and to quantum field theory. It is self-contained, and the only prerequisites are knowledge of integral calculus and partial differential equations, as well as Newton's mechanics of point masses. New subjects are developed in requisite detail at the various points where they are required. The mathematics is at the same time explicit but kept in check, so that the reader does not get bogged down in annoying generalizations that might distract him or her from the physics. Each chapter is complemented by ten problems, and the student is strongly advised to try them all by himself or herself before looking at our full solutions in the third volume.