Abstract
When [in 1905] the c-theory [Special Theory of Relativity] was born, both the mathematical formalism and its physical interpretation were established simultaneously; merely some questions of physical logic and axiomatics remained to be clarified. The story is quite different in the case of h-theory. To start with, two apparently quite different mathematical theories emerged, known as ‘wave mechanics’ (Schroedinger) and ‘matrix mechanics’ (Heisenberg-Born-Jordan), respectively. The underlying physical conceptions and, hence, the first physical interpretations were entirely different: Schroedinger believed he had reduced the quantum phenomena to a classical eigenvalue problem of the sort known from the theory of oscillations while Heisenberg-Born-Jordan understood their theory as a fundamental generalization of classical mechanics satisfying Bohr’s principle of correspondence. The progress achieved in the following time consisted of three main steps.
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