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Title
"1. Probability Distributions," handwritten draft, circa 1955
Creator
Everett, Hugh
Date Created and/or Issued
1955
Contributing Institution
UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection
Hugh Everett III Manuscripts
Rights Information
Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. The authors or their heirs retain their copyrights to the material. Unless otherwise indicated, the original files were donated to the American Institute of Physics (https://history.aip.org/ead/20130435.html). For permission to publish, contact Jeffrey A. Barrett, representative for the Everett estate, j.barrett@uci.edu.
Description
Scope/Content: Among Hugh Everett's files were a number of handwritten documents related to the writing of his thesis. Many of them were drafts of material that ultimately appeared in the long thesis. This document, titled "1. Probability Distributions" by Everett, was found in a file labeled "Early drafts," corresponding to material from the earliest stages of Everett's work on the thesis.
Scope/Content: This document was found in the basement of Mark Everett in 2007 by Mark Everett and Peter Byrne, in a file labelled "Early drafts."
Type
text
Identifier
ark:/81235/d8ff3md1w
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1294
Language
English
eng
Subject
Everett, Hugh III
Quantum mechanics
Pure wave mechanics
Relation
Hugh Everett III Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Related Materials

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