Why is it interesting?

Quantum physics is a better approximation to reality than classical physics.

The most important quantum theories are quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.

“I’m not happy with all the analyses that go with just classical theory, because nature isn’t classical, dammit”

Richard Feynman

Layman

• Gamifying Quantum Theory by Matthew S. Leifer

Student

Researcher

For a nice "high-level" perspective on quantum theory, see https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0002055.pdf

What is quantization?

In Deformations, stable theories and fundamental constants by R Vilela Mendes the author discusses how the algebra of quantum mechanics can be computed from the algebra of classical mechanics by deforming it.

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History

• Jim Baggott; The Quantum Story
• Robert P. Crease and Charles C. Mann, The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
• Abraham Pais, Inward Bound: of Matter and Forces in the Physical World