Ernst Specker
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 13 years ago |
Date of birth | February 11,1920 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Zurich |
Switzerland | |
Date of died | December 10,2011 |
Died | Zurich |
Switzerland | |
Academic advisors | Heinz Hopf |
Beno Eckmann | |
Notable student | Johann Makowsky |
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ID | 660438 |
Ernst Specker Life story
Ernst Paul Specker was a Swiss mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine's New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible.