| 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 |