VladimirFok 2007-02-19 17:43:05 2008-04-01 18:59:55 Biography % this is the default PlanetMath preamble. as your knowledge % of TeX increases, you will probably want to edit this, but % it should be fine as is for beginners. % almost certainly you want these \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} % used for TeXing text within eps files %\usepackage{psfrag} % need this for including graphics (\includegraphics) %\usepackage{graphicx} % for neatly defining theorems and propositions %\usepackage{amsthm} % making logically defined graphics %\usepackage{xypic} % there are many more packages, add them here as you need them % define commands here \emph{Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock} (or \emph{Vladimir Alexandrovich Fok} depending on the transliteration from Cyrillic) (1898 - 1974) Soviet physicist, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics. Just a few years after graduating from the university in Petrograd, he studied the Klein-Gordon equation and provided a generalization of it. For more than a dozen years he concentrated his work on optics, but around World War II his interest shifted to quantum mechanics. Today he is perhaps best known for the Bargmann-Fock space. Among theoretical physicists he's also well-known for the Hartree-Fock method still used today by chemists and molecular physicists. \begin{thebibliography}{2} \bibitem{cf} Charlotte Froese Fischer, {\it The Hartree-Fock Method for Atoms: A Numerical Approach}. New York: Wiley (1977) \bibitem{pr} Peter Ring, Peter Schuck \& W. Beiglb\"ock, {\it The Nuclear Many-body Problem}. New York: Springer Verlag (1980): v \end{thebibliography}