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> I have never heard this terminology, I have only heard Schrodinger's picture vs. Heisenberg's picture. I wrote the QM article a very long time ago at this po
by nicf 3y ago
> I have never heard this terminology, I have only heard Schrodinger's picture vs. Heisenberg's picture.
I wrote the QM article a very long time ago at this point, and I actually can't reconstruct at the moment why I used those two names! I've also heard Schrodinger and Heisenberg much more frequently. Might be worth an edit.
- Someone 3y agoMaybe because Liouville and Hamilton, being mathematicians, are better known to the target audience than the physicists Schrödinger and Heisenberg? I know the difference between mathematicians and theoretical physicists can be small, but I think that categorization is valid. To verify my intuition, I checked Wikipedia. It calls - Liouville a mathematician and engineer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Liouville https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Liouville) - Hamílton a mathematician, astronomer and physicist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan_Hamilton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan_Hamilton) - Schrödinger a physicist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schrödinger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schrödinger) - Heisenberg a theoretical physicist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg)
- remigius 3y ago[dead]