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The Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics : Collected Works 1955-1980 with Commentary /

Hugh Everett III was an American physicist best known for his many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which formed the basis of his PhD thesis at Princeton University in 1957. Although counterintuitive, Everett's revolutionary formulation of quantum mechanics offers the most direct sol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Everett, Hugh
Other Authors: Byrne, Peter, 1952-, Barrett, Jeffrey Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • General introduction
  • Biographical introduction
  • Conceptual introduction
  • Minipaper: Objective versus Subjective probability (1955)
  • Minipaper: quantitative measure of correlation (1955)
  • Minipaper: probability in wave mechanics (1955)
  • Correspondence: Wheeler to Everett (1955)
  • Long thesis : Theory of the universal wave function (1956)
  • Short Thesis: "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics (1957)
  • Wheeler Article: Assessment of Everett's "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Theory (1957)
  • Correspondence: Wheeler and Everett (1956)
  • Correspondence: Wheeler, Everett, and Stern (1956)
  • Correspondence: Wheeler, Everett, and Stern (1956)
  • Correspondence: Groenewold to Everett (1957)
  • Correspondence: Everett and Wiener (1957)
  • Correspondence: Everett and Petersen (1957)
  • Correspondence: Everett and DeWitt (1957)
  • Correspondence: Everett and Frank (1957)
  • Correspondence: Everett and Jaynes (1957)
  • Transcript: Conference at Xavier University (1959)
  • Notes: Everett on DeWitt (1970)
  • Notes: Everett on Bell (1971)
  • Correspondence: Jammer, Wheeler, and Everett (1972)
  • Transcript: Everett and Misner (1977)
  • Correspondence: Everett and Levy-Leblond (1977)
  • Correspondence: Everett and Raub (1980).