Von Neumann's impossibility proof: mathematics in the service of rhetorics

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.01.008zbMath1375.81020arXiv1801.09305OpenAlexW2963996220MaRDI QIDQ1682029

Dennis Dieks

Publication date: 28 November 2017

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09305

zbMATH Keywords

hidden variablesNiels BohrDavid BohmJohn S. Bell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of quantum theory (81-03) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Physics (00A79) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13)

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