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Hugh Everett letter to E. T. Jaynes, 11-June-1957

Hugh Everett

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Abstract

One of the most successful physicists of the generation immediately before Hugh Everett, E. T. Jaynes shared both Everett's interest in applications of information theory to physics and his foundational orientation. But whereas Everett focused on quantum mechanics, much of Jaynes' work concerned how to use information theory in thermodynamics. In this letter, Everett responds to a published paper of Jaynes', "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics," Physical Review, 106, 620-630 (1957).

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