‘Über die Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik.’ Offprint from Mathematische Annalen, Band 98, Heft 1, pp. 1-30

by David Hilbert, John Von Neumann, Lothar Nordheim

$3,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1928. / First edition, very rare offprint, of the first published attempt at an axiomatic foundation of quantum mechanics — David Hilbert's last publication in physics, and John von Neumann's first. The copy carries the pencil ownership signature of Paul Peter Ewald 1888-1985 , whom Hilbert had brought to Göttingen in 1912 as his ‘tutor in physics.’ The paper laid down six axioms for probability amplitudes in

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