Deep beauty : understanding the quantum world through mathematical innovation /

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Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 472 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Quantum theory -- Mathematics. Mathematical physics. Mathematical physics. Quantum theory -- Mathematics.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11827409

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Other authors / contributors:	Halvorson, Hans.
ISBN:	9780511976971 0511976976 9781139078672 1139078674 9781139080941 1139080946 9781107005709 1107005701
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"No scientific theory has caused more puzzlement and confusion than quantum theory. Physics is supposed to help us to understand the world, but quantum theory makes it seem a very strange place. This book is about how mathematical innovation can help us gain deeper insight into the structure of the physical world. Chapters by top researchers in the mathematical foundations of physics explore new ideas, especially novel mathematical concepts, at the cutting edge of future physics. These creative developments in mathematics may catalyze the advances that enable us to understand our current physical theories, especially quantum theory. The authors bring diverse perspectives, unified only by the attempt to introduce fresh concepts that will open up new vistas in our understanding of future physics"--
Other form:	Print version: Deep beauty. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9781107005709

Table of Contents:

Part I. Beyond the Hilbert Space Formalism: Category Theory
1. A prehistory of n-categorical physics
2. A universe of processes and some of its guises
3. Topos methods in the foundations of physics
4. The physical interpretation of daseinisation
5. Classical and quantum observables Hans
6. Bohrification
Part II. Beyond the Hilbert Space Formalism: Operator Algebras
7. Yet more ado about nothing: the remarkable relativistic vacuum state
8. Einstein meets von Neumann: locality and operational independence in algebraic quantum field theory
Part III. Behind the Hilbert Space Formalism
9. Quantum theory and beyond: is entanglement special?
10. Is Von Neumann's 'no hidden variables' proof silly?
11. Foliable operational structures for general probabilistic theories
12. The strong free will theorem

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