BROGLIE, LOUIS de.

Une tentative d'interprétation causale et non linéaire de la mécanique ondulatoire. (la théorie de la double solution).

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1956. Royal8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Fine and clean. VII, (1), 297, (2) pp.

First printing of de Broglie's important work on nonlinear wave mechanics. "The early 1950s again witnessed a major change in de Broglie’s views. Impressed by the nonlocal theory put forth by David Bohm in 1951, which reintroduced pilot-waves, de Broglie turned back to his first theoretical convictions. Surrounded by some faithful followers, de Broglie resumed his quest for a causal interpretation, this time supplementing his initial views with the idea of nonlinear dynamics for the singular wave. This was, however, increasingly perceived as a marginal research program, even in his own country, where quantum theoreticians preferred to stick to more mainstream physics, less fundamental and closer to the wealth of new experimental data emerging in the 1950s." (DSB).

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