Von Neumann, Gödel and Quantum Incompleteness

Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 8:75-82 (2001)
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John von Neumann was among the first to learn about Kurt Gödel’s results on the incompleteness of formal systems. Did this shape his views on the completeness of quantum mechanics? I will investigate this question from two viewpoints: von Neumann’s no-hidden-variables proof and his treatment of the quantum measurement problem

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