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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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John von Neumann and the Foundations of Quantum Physics
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Articles
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Unpublished Letters and Lectures by John von Neumann
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General Part
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Report — Documentation
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Keywords
About this book
There exist several popular books on his personality and various collections focusing on his achievements in mathematics, computer science, and economy. Strangely enough, to date no detailed appraisal of his seminal contributions to the mathematical foundations of quantum physics has appeared. Von Neumann's theory of measurement and his critique of hidden variables became the touchstone of most debates in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Today, his name also figures most prominently in the mathematically rigorous branches of contemporary quantum mechanics of large systems and quantum field theory. And finally - as one of his last lectures, published in this volume for the first time, shows - he considered the relation of quantum logic and quantum mechanical probability as his most important problem for the second half of the twentieth century.
The present volume embraces both historical and systematic analyses of his methodology of mathematical physics, and of the various aspects of his work in the foundations of quantum physics, such as theory of measurement, quantum logic, and quantum mechanical entropy. The volume is rounded off by previously unpublished letters and lectures documenting von Neumann's thinking about quantum theory after his 1932 Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.
The general part of the Yearbook contains papers emerging from the Institute's annual lecture series and reviews of important publications of philosophy of science and its history.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: John von Neumann and the Foundations of Quantum Physics
Editors: Miklós Rédei, Michael Stöltzner
Series Title: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2012-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6812-0Published: 28 February 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5651-1Published: 03 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2012-0Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 0929-6328
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1818
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 373
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Physics, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, History, general