Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics


The book Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics by John von Neumann is an important early work in the development of quantum theory.

Publication history

The book was originally published in German in 1932 by Julius Springer, under the title Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik.
An English translation by Robert T. Beyer was published in 1955 by Princeton University Press.
A Russian translation, edited by N. Bogolyubov, was published by Nauka in 1964.
A new English edition, edited by Nicholas A. Wheeler, was published in 2018 by Princeton University Press.

Significance

The book mainly summarizes results that von Neumann had published in earlier papers.
Its main significance may be its argument against the idea of hidden variables, on thermodynamic grounds.