Mathematician:Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Stepather of.

Nationality
British (of Swiss origin)

History

 * Born: 8 August 1902 in Bristol, England
 * Died: 20 October 1984 in Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Dirac Notation
 * Dirac Bracket


 * Dirac Adjoint
 * Dirac Field
 * Dirac Lagrangian
 * Dirac Matrices
 * Dirac Sea
 * Dirac Constant
 * Dirac Spinor
 * Dirac Equation
 * Nonlinear Dirac Equation
 * Dirac Equation in Curved Spacetime
 * Two-Body Dirac Equations
 * Dirac Large Numbers Hypothesis
 * Dirac Monopole


 * Fermi-Dirac Statistics (with )
 * Dirac-von Neumann Axioms


 * Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac Force (with and )
 * Kapitsa-Dirac Effect (with )


 * Dirac Delta Function
 * Dirac Comb
 * Dirac Measure
 * Dirac Operator
 * Dirac Algebra

Books and Papers

 * 1930: The Principles of Quantum Mechanics


 * 1966: Lectures on Quantum Mechanics


 * 1966: Lectures on Quantum Field Theory


 * 1974: Spinors in Hilbert Space


 * 1975: General Theory of Relativity

Notable Quotes

 * We have boson variables appearing automatically in a theory that starts with only fermion variables, provided the number of fermion variables is infinite. There must be such boson variables connected with electrons...
 * --- from Spinors in Hilbert Space