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These lecture notes comprise a three-semester graduate course in quantum mechanics at the University of Illinois. There are a number of texts which present the basic topics very well; but since a fair quantity of the material discussed in my course was not available to the students in elementary quantum mechanics books, I was asked to prepare written notes. In retrospect these lecture notes seemed sufficiently interesting to warrant their publication in this format. The notes, presented here in slightly revised form, consitutute a self-contained course in quantum mechanics from first principles to elementary and relativistic one-particle mechanics. Prerequisite to reading these notes is some familiarity with elementary quantum mechanics, at least at the undergraduate level. Preferably the reader should already have met the uncertainty principle and the concept of a wave function. Prerequisites also include sufficient acquaintance with complex cariables to be able to do simple contour integrals and to understand words such as “poles” and “branch cuts.” An elementary knowledge of Fourier transforms and series is necessary. I also assume an awareness of classical electrodynamics.

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⭐I am extremely unhappy with the version of this text that I have received. The version that I received has many missing characters and faded information within the text. For example sometimes I cannot tell if a letter is bolded (since it is a vector) or regular font (for scalars) in equation where the nature of the variable isn’t obvious. Friends of mine have received the same textbook, but have not had this problem. On page 117, a plus sign turned into a muliplication sign because of the lack of decent print quality. I do not think that you should buy this textbook from this seller given the incredibly poor print quality. I paid for a new version of a graduate textbook to avoid this issue, not run head first into it. See pictures for examples!

⭐Perhaps I’m biased towards treatments like Sakurai, but this book was way too dedicated to basic wave mechanics and belabored wave treatment instead of more technical and formal treatments.

⭐Old is gold. There are some very useful material here such as scattering theory and perturbative techniques etc.

⭐Bad quality printing. I have the original textbook since 1978 and bought this one to replace it. Although be a very nice quantum mechanics textbook for PhD students, the quality printing of this edition is very bad!

⭐i bought it because my professor chose it as our textbookit is a good book anyway

⭐The font is unreadable! Buy other versions. Also, the index is worthless.

⭐This book was assembled out Baym’s lecture notes for the Quantum Mechanics course taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This may sound like a promising beginning for a book, but the truth is that these lecture notes have not been put together nor edited in a satisfactory way.First, the book’s passages are almost always too concise and not very illuminating, giving the reader the impression that the text is nothing but a bunch of topics or short phrases that Baym used to use as reminders of the important points to be discussed in class. This clearly makes the notes not as valuable as one may have thought, since they do not come with Baym himself to offer you those extra in-depth discussions he surely provided in class.Second, the author has an extremmely poor notation style. At times, this follows from his lack of mathematical rigour, which can be unsettling for those who hope to build their physics knowledge on solid and well-defined mathematical grounds. Often times, however, the notation is just ill-chosen – it is actually not hard to find expressions full of unnecessary indices, creating yet another barrier for a clear understanding of the subject.Third, I beg to disagree with the other reviewers in regards to the “physical insights” that this book supposedly offers to the reader. I have actually read most of the chapters of this book and am still to find any passage with an interesting physical insight communicated in a clear way. This books only provided me with insights in the sense that it made me realise that I needed to look for better sources to learn Quantum Mechanics.Maybe the book looks better through the eyes of the advanced reader. In my opinion, however, it lacks structure and clarity. There are definitely better and more complete books around.

⭐Come on, it’s not that bad. It has an interesting way of taking your natural understandinig of polarized light as 2 orthogonal states to try to give you some insight into that as a quantum mechanical system and then generalizing that understanding to other QM systems. Baym learned his advanced quantum mechanics at Harvard, where they would use his book as the closest text to what they were teaching for a number of years (at least when taught by his instructor). It was a reasonable text, used at Illinois and Harvard, which had good physics departments.

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