The Western Ontario series in philosophy of science

Valuations on Functionally Closed Sets of Quantum Mechanical Observables and Von Neumann’s ‘No-Hidden-Variables’ Theorem

Jason Zimba, Rob Clifton

Published Jan 1, 1998• 9 citations

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5084-2_4

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