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Did von Neumann consider his mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics to be essentially complete?
With my faulty memory, I recall reading someone claiming that von Neumann did not consider his Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics to be complete and did expect further work to correct it.
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Who first proposed the idea of "resolution of the identity"?
Who first proposed the idea of "resolution of the identity" as used in the functional calculus of self-adjoint operators? Was it von Neumann?
In Japanese, it translates as "resolution ...
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Background on the Stone-von Neumann theorem
I'm a mathematician.
I'm required to give a lecture on the Stone-von Neumann theorem. I already have all the mathematical details figured out, but I wish to make the lecture more interesting by giving ...
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