Timeline for How did the bra-ket notation become mainstream in quantum mechanics?
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| Dec 10 at 13:47 | answer | added | Georg Essl | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 8 at 13:16 | vote | accept | Calmarius | ||
| Apr 9, 2016 at 17:31 | answer | added | Alexandre Eremenko | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 17:15 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | A relevant discussion is here: hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/198/… | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 17:14 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | It existed but was not widely known. Bra and ket were introduced for a convenient distinction of row vectors and column vectors. In another language they are called vectors and co-vectors. It was gradually understood that this distinction is very important and physicists made great contribution to this understanding. | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 16:20 | comment | added | Calmarius | @AlexandreEremenko So does this mean that the usual notation of vectors and matrices we use today not existed that time? I can accept that as an answer. | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 13:46 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 9, 2016 at 13:30 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | It is not "like linear algebra" but it is exactly linear algebra. At the time of Dirac linear algebra was not taught to all undergraduates. So he invented his own notation. Physicists found them convenient for the questions they consider. | |
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| Apr 9, 2016 at 10:13 | history | asked | Calmarius | CC BY-SA 3.0 |