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Ananyo Bhattacharya — John von Neumann: The Man from the Future (EP.151)
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What Is Heisenberg's Approach to Quantum Mechanics?
Werner Heisenberg came up with a new science of the atom, which gets called matrix mechanics and it deals with matrices to grids of numbers. A year later there's another version of quantum mechanics that is invented by Schrodinger over in Vienna. These two versions of quantum mechanics are basically the same answers but what they imply about the world is completely different. And von Neumann's mathematics shows this for the first time.
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