John von Neumann's mathematical ``utopia in quantum theory

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2008.06.002MaRDI QIDQ643497zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Valente

Publication date 31 October 2011

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://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2008.06.002

zbMATH Keywords

geometryccrsvon Neumannlogicquantum probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) History of quantum theory (81-03) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

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