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Abstract
Wikipedia has claimed for over 3 years now that John von Neumann was the 'first quantum Bayesian'. In context, this reads as stating that von Neumann inaugurated QBism, the approach to quantum theory promoted by Fuchs, Mermin and Schack. This essay explores how such a claim is, historically speaking, unsupported.Entities:
Keywords: QBism; Quantum Bayesianism; von Neumann
Year: 2016 PMID: 27091166 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0235
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci ISSN: 1364-503X Impact factor: 4.226