The Quantum Cookbook: Mathematical Recipes for the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - Hardcoverby Jim Baggott (Author) Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. But it is also completely mad. Although the theory quite obviously works, it leaves us chasing ghosts and phantoms; particles that are waves and waves that are particles; cats that are at once both alive and dead; lots of seemingly spooky goings on; and a desperate desire to lie down quietly in a darkened room. The Quantum Cookbook explains why this is. It