Notes on possible thesis titles, circa 1955

Everett, Hugh

Published Jan 1, 1955• 0 citations

Abstract

Among Hugh Everett's files were a number of handwritten documents related to the writing of his thesis. Some of them were early notes on ideas and material that ultimately appeared in the long thesis. This document, found loose among Everett's papers, includes brainstorming notes on possible titles for the long thesis. He originally settled on The Theory of the Universal Wave Function, but then changed it to Quantum Mechanics without Probability before distributing drafts to Bohr and others.

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