Jaynes Documents
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Everett and his advisor John Wheeler rewrote Everett's long thesis in the winter of 1957 to produce a much shorter version, which Everett subsequently defended for his Ph.D. under the title "On the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics." The short thesis was retitled for publication as "The 'Relative State' Formulation of Quantum Mechanics.'' This is the work reviewed by Jaynes' letter October 15, 1957. | Jul 6, 2012, 3:26 PM | Daniel Davis | |||
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Hugh Everett's long thesis was submitted to John Archibald Wheeler, his doctoral thesis advisor, in January 1956 under the title "Quantum Mechanics by the Method of the Universal Wave Function." It was retitled "Wave Mechanics Without Probability" and circulated in April of that year to several prominent physicists, including Niels Bohr. The long thesis itself was not published until 1973 in the DeWitt and Graham Princeton University Press anthology. It was published under the title "The Theory of the Universal Wave Function." Although Everett did not publish the long thesis, he nonetheless kept a copy of it, and appears to have returned to it periodically to make changes even after the short thesis appeared in print. This document is a scanned version of Everett's personal copy of his long thesis, with his collected comments and changes. | Jul 9, 2012, 7:23 PM | Daniel Davis | |||
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Hugh Everett marginal notes on page from E. T. Jaynes' "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics" | Jul 2, 2012, 12:48 PM | Daniel Davis | |||
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Hugh Everett handwritten draft letter to E.T. Jaynes, 15-May-1957. Comments on E. T. Jaynes' "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics". | Jul 3, 2012, 8:32 PM | Daniel Davis | |||
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Hugh Everett letter to E. T. Jaynes, 11-June-1957. Comments on E. T. Jaynes' "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics". | Jul 3, 2012, 8:32 PM | Daniel Davis | |||
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E.T. Jaynes letter to Hugh Everett, 17-June-1957, replying to Hugh Everett's 11-June-1957 letter on E. T. Jaynes' "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics". | Jul 9, 2012, 7:14 PM | Daniel Davis | |||
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E.T. Jaynes letter to Hugh Everett, 15-October-1957, reviewing a short version of Everett's thesis, as published in Review of Modern Physics. Published with permission from the Edwin T. Jaynes Papers, University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries. Unprocessed Box#UA33, folder "H. Everett". See link to Washington University Libraries to request any further publication. | 2625k | v. 4 | Jul 5, 2012, 4:44 PM | Daniel Davis | |
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"The Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Collected Works 1955-1980 with Commentary" has a few pages of narrative about the correspondence between Jaynes and Everett. | Jul 2, 2012, 12:56 PM | Daniel Davis | |||
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Published in The Physical Review, May 15, 1957. Topic of Everett's correspondence, and Jaynes' June 17, 1957 reply. | Jul 6, 2012, 3:27 PM | Daniel Davis | |||
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Form to notify Washington State Libraries of intent to publish or quote from Jaynes-Everett_19571015.pdf. | Jul 9, 2012, 7:15 PM | Daniel Davis |