Heinrich Hertz's mechanics

a model for Werner Heisenberg's april 1925 paper on the anomalous zeeman effect

Klaus Hentschel

pp. 183-223

in: Davis Baird, Hughes, Alfred Nordmann (eds), Heinrich Hertz, Berlin, Springer, 1998

Abstract

In this paper, I will show that Heisenberg's last paper before his invention of matrix mechanics in the summer of 1925¹ contains striking parallels to Hertz's Mechanics. Although other philosophical influences on the young Heisenberg, as well as his physics and mathematics background, have already been examined extensively,² this particular Hertzian strand in Heisenberg's writings at that specific time has not been pointed out in the pertinent secondary literature.³

Cited authors

Heisenberg Werner

Hertz Heinrich