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by S. C. Coutinho
Year of Award: 1998
Publication Information: The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 104, 1997, pp. 593-604
Summary: This paper surveys the incarnations of the Weyl algebra associated to several formalisms of quantum mechanics, including matrix mechanics, Schrodinger's equation and Dirac's formalism.
About the Author: S. C. Coutinho was at the Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro at the time of publication.