The short Heroic Age of physics that started in 1925 was one of the
rare occasions when a deep consideration of the question: What does
physics really say? was necessary in carrying out numerical
calculations. In many parts of microphysics the calculations have
now become relatively straightforward if not easy, but most
physicists seem to agree that some questions of principle remain to
be resolved, even if they do not think it is very important to do
so. This situation has affected the way people think and write
about quantum mechanics, a gingerly approach to fundamentals and a
tendency to emphasize what fifty years ago was new in the new
theory at the expense of continuity with what came before it.
Nowadays those who look into the subject are more likely to be
struck by unexpected similarities between quantum and classical
mechanics than by dramatic contrasts they had been led to expect.
It is often said that the hardest part of understanding quantum
mechanics is to understand that there is nothing to understand; all
the same, to think quantum mechanically it helps to have firm
mental connections with classical physics and to know exactly what
these connections do and do not imply. This book originated more
than a decade ago as informal lecture notes OP, prepared for use in
a course taught from time to time to advanced undergraduates at
Williams College."
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