Foundations of quantum mechanics: Building on von Neumann's heritage
✍ Scribed by Gérard G. Emch
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 160 KB
- Volume
- 65
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7608
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✦ Synopsis
From 1927From to 1943
, the mathematical and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics, and their prolongations into the formulation of statistical mechanics, were either the direct subject of or one of the primary motivations for several publications by von Neumann. We contrast the reception received by the work done during the first Ž . 5 years 1927᎐1932 and that received by the monumental mathematical constructs Ž . wrought in the second period 1934᎐1943 ; we describe how the latter were to lead to the elaboration of a formalism generalizing the fundamental structures of quantum mechanics so that they can encompass and deal consistently with situations typical of the quantum many-body problems of statistical mechanics.