Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- To the reader
- Prologue
- Part I Causality and differentiable structure
- Part II Geometrical points and measurement theory
- Introduction to Part II
- 6 Real numbers and classical measurements
- 7 Special topics in quantum mechanics
- 8 Von Neumann's theory of measurement
- 9 Macroscopic observables in quantum physics
- 10 Sewell's theory of measurement
- 11 Summing-up
- 12 Large quantum systems
- Epilogue
- Mathematical appendices
- List of Symbols for Part I
- References
- Index
10 - Sewell's theory of measurement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- To the reader
- Prologue
- Part I Causality and differentiable structure
- Part II Geometrical points and measurement theory
- Introduction to Part II
- 6 Real numbers and classical measurements
- 7 Special topics in quantum mechanics
- 8 Von Neumann's theory of measurement
- 9 Macroscopic observables in quantum physics
- 10 Sewell's theory of measurement
- 11 Summing-up
- 12 Large quantum systems
- Epilogue
- Mathematical appendices
- List of Symbols for Part I
- References
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010