Suman Seth, “Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926” (MIT Press, 2010)
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The Importance of Lineage in Zommerfeld's Teaching
In this part one, you describe the basis of Zommerfeld's style. And then it's application and it's adaptation, the context of the Great War or World War I. You actually sort of take us back to the moment that becomes really central to his training - which is his work as a mathematician in an engineering and mining school. So can you talk a little bit about that phase of his life and how that becomes important as you argue to shape his approach to theoretical physics later on? Absolutely.
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