This book will be useful to anyone who wants to understand the  use of quantum theory for the description of physical processes. It is  a graduate level text, ideal for independent study, and includes  numerous figures, exercises, bibliographical references, and even some  computer programs.   The first chapters introduce formal tools: the mathematics are  precise, but not excessively abstract. The physical interpretation too  is rigorous. It makes no use of the uncertainty principle of other  ill-defined notions. The central part of the book is devoted to Bell's  theorem and to the Kochen-Specker theorem. It is here that  quantum phenomena depart most radically from classical physics. There  has recently been considerable progress on these issues, and the  latest developments have been included. The final chapters discuss  further topics of current research: spacetime symmetries, quantum  thermodynamics and information theory, semiclassical methods,  irreversibility, quantum chaos, and especially the measuring process.  In particular, it is shown how modern techniques allow the extraction  of more information from a physical system than traditional  measurement methods.  For physicists, mathematicians and philosophers of science with an  interest in the applications and foundations of quantum theory. The  volume is suitable as a supplementary graduate textbook.

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