Simon Kochen
Simon Kochen · Science & Medicine
Logic and quantum foundations; the Kochen-Specker theorem
1934, Antwerp, Belgium
Belgium · Canada · United States
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Kochen is a mathematician and logician at Princeton who, with Ernst Specker, proved the Kochen–Specker theorem (1967) on quantum contextuality, and later, with John Conway, the free-will theorem; he also did major work in model theory and number theory. His Jewish family fled Nazi persecution, eventually reaching Canada.
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Logic and quantum foundations; the Kochen-Specker theorem
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