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Paul Dirac clip on quantum mechanics origin recirculates
Original: Paul Dirac recounting how he found the link between the Poisson bracket and the commutator: https:// youtu.be/2GwctBldBv
A recording of physicist Paul Dirac describing how he connected the classical Poisson bracket to the quantum commutator is being shared among mathematicians and physicists. The insight, made in the 1920s, became a cornerstone for translating classical mechanics into quantum theory, and the clip is being passed around alongside a recent arXiv paper on the subject.
Why now: A recent arXiv paper appears to have renewed interest in Dirac's historical account of the discovery.
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- Paul Dirac recounting how he found the link between the Poisson bracket and the commutator: https:// youtu.be/2GwctBldBvU?t=1014 Found by way of https:// arxiv.org/abs/2312.05329 # math # physics · rwxrwxrwx@mathstodon.xyz · 6
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