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In this chapter we discuss the general notion of quantization. It has a range of meanings; the first and most obvious among those is the historic one. In the beginning of the twentieth century theoretical physicists struggled with serious fundamental problems in what we now call classical physics.

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Bongaarts, P. (2015). Quantization. In: Quantum Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09561-5_13

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