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Title: "Objective vs Subjective Probability," minipaper 1955
Creator: Everett, Hugh
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection: Hugh Everett III Manuscripts
Rights Information: Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. The authors or their heirs retain their copyrights to the material. Unless otherwise indicated, the original files were donated to the American Institute of Physics (https://history.aip.org/ead/20130435.html). For permission to publish, contact Jeffrey A. Barrett, representative for the Everett estate, j.barrett@uci.edu.
Description: Scope/Content: Before writing a first draft of the long thesis, Hugh Everett wrote three short papers, often refered to as his minipapers, for John Wheeler to review. This minipaper, called "Objective vs. Subjective Probability," presents an early formulation of the quantum measurement problem in terms of a conflict between subjective and objective probabilities. Everett ultimately provided a much clearer formulation of the measurement problem in terms of a conflict between different state attributions in the long thesis. The structure of the experimental setup, however, is similar. There are two versions of this minipaper. The present document is the condensed and typed version of the minipaper that Wheeler would have seen and commented on.
Scope/Content: This document is a reproduction of a document found in the Hugh Everett archive, American Institute of Physics.
Type: text
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8wp9tm1s
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1263
Language: English
eng
Subject: Everett, Hugh III
Quantum mechanics
Pure wave mechanics
Wheeler, John A.
Relation: Hugh Everett III Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Related Materials

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