Rédei, Miklós 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5298-1443
(2007)
The birth of quantum logic.
History and Philosophy of Logic, 28 (2).
pp. 107-122.
ISSN 0144-5340
Abstract
By quoting extensively from unpublished letters written by John von Neumann to Garret Birkhoff during the preparatory phase (in 1935) of their ground-breaking 1936 paper that established quantum logic, the main steps in the thought process leading to the 1936 Birkhoff–von Neumann paper are reconstructed. The reconstruction makes it clear why Birkhoff and von Neumann rejected the notion of quantum logic as the projection lattice of an infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space and why they postulated in their 1936 paper that the quantum propositional system should be isomorphic to an abstract projective geometry.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/thpl20 |
| Additional Information: | © 2007 Taylor & Francis |
| Divisions: | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Apr 2013 15:43 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 22:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/49720 |
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