Probability in physics
Ben-Menahem, Yemima
1946-
Hemmo, Meir.
text
bibliography
gw
Heidelberg
New York
Springer
c2012
2012
monographic
eng
xii, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Introduction / Yemima Ben-Menahem and Meir Hemmo -- Physics and chance / David Albert -- Typicality and the role of the Lebesgue measure in statistical mechanics / Itamar Pitowsky -- Typicality and notions of probability in physics / Sheldon Goldstein -- Deterministic laws and epistemic chances / Wayne C. Myrvold -- Measures over initial conditions / Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker -- A new approach to the approach to equilibrium / Roman Frigg and Charlotte Werndl -- Revising statistical mechanics : probability, typicality and closure time / Alon Drory -- How many Maxwell's demons, and where? / Eric Fanchon, Klil Ha-Horesh Neori, and Avshalom C. Elitzur -- Locality and determinism : the odd couple / Yemima Ben-Menahem -- Why the Tsirelson bound? / Jeffrey Bub -- Three attempts at two axioms for quantum mechanics / Daniel Rohrlich -- Generalized probability measures and the framework of effects / William Demopoulos -- Infinitely challenging : Pitowsky's subjective interpretation and the physics of infinite systems / Laura Ruetsche and John Earman -- Bayesian conditioning, the reflection principle, and quantum decoherence / Christopher A. Fuchs and RĂ¼diger Schack -- The world according to de Finetti : on de Finetti's theory of probability and its application to quantum mechanics / Joseph Berkovitz -- Four and a half axioms for finite-dimensional quantum probability / Alexander Wilce -- Probability in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics / Lev Vaidman.
Yemima Ben-Menahem, Meir Hemmo, editors.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Probabilities
Statistical physics
Probabilities
Statistical physics
QC174.85.P76 P765 2012
530.1592
Frontiers collection
9783642213281
9783642213281
9783642213298 (eISBN)
2011939307
BTCTA
110920
20150410120958.0
16968756
eng