Why John von Neumann did not like the Hilbert space formalism of quantum mechanics (and what he liked instead)
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DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(96)00017-2zbMath1222.81021OpenAlexW1984376813MaRDI QIDQ639781
Publication date: 11 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/s1355-2198(96)00017-2
History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of quantum theory (81-03) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) History of functional analysis (46-03)
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