The first fifteen chapters of these lectures (omitting four to six chapters each year) cover a one term course taken by a mixed group of senior undergraduate and junior graduate students specializing either in mathematics or physics. Typically, the mathematics students have some background in advanced analysis, while the physics students have had introductory quantum mechanics. To satisfy such a disparate audience, we decided to select material which is interesting from the viewpoint of modern theoretical physics, and which illustrates an interplay of ideas from various fields of mathematics such as operator theory, probability, differential equations, and differential geometry. Given our time constraint, we have often pursued mathematical content at the expense of rigor. However, wherever we have sacrificed the latter, we have tried to explain whether the result is an established fact, or, mathematically speaking, a conjecture, and in the former case, how a given argument can be made rigorous. The present book retains these features.
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1 Physical Background 2 Dynamics 3 Observables 4 The Uncertainty Principle 5 Spectral Theory 6 Scattering States 7 Special Cases 8 Many-particle Systems 9 Density Matrices 10 Perturbation Theory: Feshbach Method 11 The Feynman Path Integral 12 Quasi-classical Analysis 13 Mathematical Supplement: The Calculus of Variations 14 Resonances 15 Introduction to Quantum Field Theory 16 Quantum Electrodynamics of Non-relativistic Particles:The Theory of Radiation 17 Supplement: Renormalization Group 18 Comments on Missing Topics, Literature, and Further Reading References Index