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by kgwgk 281 days ago
This one is not exactly a “textbook” but it is more advanced and technical than most “popular science” books and follows a historical presentation:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-quantum-cookbook...

The Quantum Cookbook

Mathematical Recipes for the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Jim Baggott

1:Planck's Derivation of E = hn: The Quantisation of Energy

2:Einstein's Derivation of E = mc2: The Equivalence of Mass and Energy

3:Bohr's Derivation of the Rydberg Formula: Quantum Numbers and Quantum Jumps

4:De Broglie's Derivation of / = h/p: Wave-particle Duality

5:Schrödinger's Derivation of the Wave Equation: Quantisation as an Eigenvalue Problem

6:Born's Interpretation of the Wavefunction: Quantum Probability

7:Heisenberg, Bohr, Robertson, and the Uncertainty Principle : The Interpretation of Quantum Uncertainty

8:Heisenberg's Derivation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle: The Stability of Matter and the Periodic Table

9:Dirac's Derivation of the Relativistic Wave Equation: Electron Spin and Antimatter

10:Dirac, Von Neumann, and the Derivation of the Quantum Formalism: State Vectors in Hilbert Space

11:Von Neumann and the Problem of Quantum Measurement: The 'Collapse of the Wavefunction'

12:Einstein, Bohm, Bell, and the Derivation of Bell's Inequality: Entanglement and Quantum Non-locality