George David Birkhoff and John von Neumann: A question of priority and the ergodic theorems, 1931-1932

DOI10.1006/HMAT.2001.2338zbMATH Open1003.01011OpenAlexW1993842694WikidataQ56020162 ScholiaQ56020162MaRDI QIDQ1604662FDOQ1604662

Authors: Joseph D. Zund 

Publication date: 8 July 2002

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/hmat.2001.2338

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zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert spacequantum mechanicsvon Neumannergodic theoremsBirkhoffRobertsonscientific priority

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of statistical mechanics (82-03)

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