Deep Beauty: Mathematical Innovation and the Search for an Underlying Intelligibility of the Quantum World

This grant supported a symposium held in Princeton (October 2007) and a subsequent research volume, both in honor of the 75th anniversary of the publication of John von Neumann's classic text, The Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. The purpose of the program was to better understand the nature of quantum mechanics and thereby probe further into the nature of the universe. Twelve scholars participated in the symposium and will contribute to the research volume which is set to be published in Spring 2009.

Grant Amount:

$272,400

Start Date:

March 2007

End Date:

December 2008

Grant ID:

12543

Panel of Judges:

John Baez
University of California (Riverside, California)

Caslav Brukner
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)

Jeffrey Bub
University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)

Bob Coecke
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Andreas Döring
Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine (London, United Kingdom)

Lucien Hardy
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)

Simon B. Kochen
Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)

Nicolaas P. (Klaas) Landsman
Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Miklós Rédei
London School of Economics and Political Science (London, United Kingdom)

Stephen J. Summers
University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida)

Online Discussant and Book Contributors:

Jeremy N. Butterfield
Trinity College, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Hans F. de Groote
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Christopher J. Isham
Imperial College (London, United Kingdom)
 

Special Guests:

Freeman J. Dyson
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey)

Peter Woit
Columbia University (New York, New York)