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Title
Hugh Everett letter to E. T. Jaynes, 11-June-1957
Creator
Everett, Hugh
Date Created and/or Issued
1957-06-11
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: 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).
Scope/Content: This document is a reproduction of a document found in the E. T. Jaynes papers at the University of Washington.
Type
text
Identifier
ark:/81235/d8z31p25m
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1124
Language
English
eng
Subject
Everett, Hugh III
Correspondence
Relation
Hugh Everett III Correspondence

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