Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics
Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics by L. V. Tarasovby L. V. Tarasov
Shares rank 9 of 13 physics textbooks by recommenders
Readers recommend it for its dialogues with personas and the reader in the Prelude and Interludes, which they find enlightening.
Readers recommend it for its dialogues with personas and the reader in the Prelude and Interludes, which they find enlightening.
3 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 3
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 3 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
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Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Dialogues with personas in prelude
“The dialogues of the author engages with various personas and the reader that are interspersed as Prelude and Interludes are really enlightening.”
Comment from 24 Oct 2026 in “I don't understand quantum physics (2018)”
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The four most recommended other physics textbooks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Feynman Lectures on Physicsby Feynman, Leighton and Sands | 34 | 3 | 92% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Course of Theoretical Physicsby Landau and Lifshitz | 8 | 1 | 89% | 6 | — | — |
| Computational Physics (2nd Edition)by Giordano and Nakanishi | 7 | 1 | 88% | 1 | — | — |
| General Relativityby Robert Wald | 6 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
| Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanicsby L. V. TarasovThis page | 3 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
1 of the 3 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“The dialogues of the author engages with various personas and the reader that are interspersed as Prelude and Interludes are really enlightening.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.