Abstract
DIRAC has said, “The general theory of quantum mechanics is nowalmost complete.... The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that an exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble....” How then is it possible to have a quantum chemistry? Must the chemist for ever wait on the pleasure of great calculating machines before he can get a new insight into the underlying philosophies of his subject, or must he acquire a mathematical equipment which would only enable him to play about on the fringe of quantum chemistry?
Enführung in die Quantenchemie
Von Prof. Dr. Hans Hellmann. Pp. vii + 350. (Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1937.) 20 gold marks.
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Enführung in die Quantenchemie. Nature 141, 667–668 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141667a0
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