📚 Quantum Theory

Books with quantum theory on their catalogue record, first published between 1930 and 2014, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject quantum theory in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 7,097 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Tao of Physics	Fritjof Capra	1975	35
	The Universe in a Nutshell	Stephen Hawking	2000	34
	The Dancing Wu Li Masters	Gary Zukav	1979	30
	The Elegant Universe	Brian Greene	1999	30
	Physics and philosophy	Werner Heisenberg	1958	27
	The evolution of physics	Albert Einstein	1938	23
	The Principles of Quantum Mechanics	Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac	1930	22
	The nature of space and time	Stephen Hawking	1996	19
	The Fourth Dimension	Rudy Rucker	1984	17
	Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd Edition) by David J. Griffiths	David Jeffrey Griffiths	1994	14
	Concepts of modern physics	Arthur Beiser	1963	13
	Siete breves lecciones de física	Carlo Rovelli	2014	13
	Physikalischen Prinzipien der Quantentheorie	Werner Heisenberg	1930	11
	Mécanique quantique	Albert Messiah	1958	11
	Thirty years that shook physics	George Gamow	1966	10
	In Search of Schrödinger's Cat	John R. Gribbin	1984	10
	In Search of the Multiverse	John R. Gribbin	2009	10
	Quantum mechanics	Kurt Gottfried	1966	9
	Speakable and unspeakable in quantum mechanics	J. S. Bell	1987	9
	Quantum Mechanics	Nouredine Zettili	2001	9
	Faust in Copenhagen	Gino Segre	2007	9
	Quantum Mechanics	Leonard Susskind	2014	9
	Quantum Mechanics	Alastair I. M. Rae	2002	8
	Quantum	Manjit Kumar	2007	8
	The strangest man	Graham Farmelo	2009	8
	Modern physics	Robert L. Sproull	1956	7
	The fabric of reality	David Deutsch	1997	7
	Entanglement	Amir D. Aczel	2001	7
	Thermodynamics	J. P. Holman	1969	6
	Quantum physics	Stephen Gasiorowicz	1974	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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