The early axiomatizations of quantum mechanics: jordan, von neumann and the continuation of hilbert's program

Archive for History of Exact Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 279-318

  Lacki, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1007/PL00007551     Document Type: Article

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