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

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2008.06.002zbMath1223.81052OpenAlexW2037856373MaRDI QIDQ643497

Giovanni 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

geometryccrslogicvon Neumannquantum probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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