Olivier Darrigol
(1955-)
Olivier Darrigol received his doctorate in 1982 from the University of Paris with a thesis on the quantum theory of fields.
in 1992, he wrote the important book
From C-numbers to Q-numbers: the Classical Analogy in the History of Quantum Theory, concerning the difference between ordinary, commuting variables and the non-commuting variables in quantum mechanic that
Paul DIrac called "queer." So perhaps classical versus quantum variables or numbers.
Darrigol wrote "The Quantum Enigma," one of the three chapters on quantum mechanics in the 2104
Cambridge Companion to Einstein. The others were
Christoph Lehner's "Realism and Einstein's Critique of Quantum Mechanics and
Roger H. Stuewer's "The Experimental Challenge of Light Quanta."
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