nLab Itamar Pitowsky

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A brief rememberance:

• Gil Kalai?, Itamar Pitowsky: Probability in Physics, Where does it Come From? (Feb 2010)

See also:

• Meir Hemmo, Orly Shenker (eds.): Quantum, Probability, Logic – The Work and Influence of Itamar Pitowsky, Springer (2020) &lbrackdoi:10.1007/978-3-030-34316-3]

Selected writings

On how Bell's inequalities in quantum probability theory have been preconceived by George Boole (in The Laws of Thought) in classical probability theory:

• Itamar Pitowsky, From George Boole To John Bell — The Origins of Bell’s Inequality, in: Bell’s Theorem, Quantum Theory and Conceptions of the Universe, Fundamental Theories of Physics 37 Springer (1989) [doi:10.1007/978-94-017-0849-4_6]

On quantum probability and quantum logic with emphasis on this perspective on Bell's inequalities:

• Itamar Pitowsky, Quantum Probability – Quantum Logic, Lecture Notes in Physics 321, Springer (1989) [doi:10.1007/BFb0021186]

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