Mathematician:Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

Mathematician
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 (with )


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


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

Publications

 * 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


 * Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field. For this reason a book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must be essentially mathematical.
 * -- Quoted in : They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say