Specker received his Ph.D. in 1949 from ETH Zurich, where he remained throughout his professional career. Specker sequence Baer–Specker group Ernst Specker...
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Kochen–Specker (KS) theorem, also known as the Bell–KS theorem, is a "no-go" theorem proved by John S. Bell in 1966 and by Simon B. Kochen and Ernst Specker...
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first example of such a sequence was constructed by Ernst Specker (1949). The existence of Specker sequences has consequences for computable analysis....
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Specker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ernst Specker (1920–2011), Swiss mathematician Joe C. Specker (1921–1944), United States...
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the field of group theory, the Baer–Specker group, or Specker group, named after Reinhold Baer and Ernst Specker, is an example of an infinite Abelian...
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arguments include quantum contextuality, by Bell, Simon B. Kochen and Ernst Specker, which argues that hidden variable theories cannot be "sensible", meaning...
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sequence with this property is known as a Specker sequence, as the first construction is due to Ernst Specker in 1949. Despite the existence of counterexamples...
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Bell's theorem (section Kochen–Specker theorem (1967))
result equivalent to the Kochen–Specker theorem (hence the latter is sometimes also known as the Bell–Kochen–Specker or Bell–KS theorem). However, publication...
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application of model theory to algebra. In 1967 Kochen and Ernst Specker proved the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics and quantum contextuality...
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at ETH Zurich in 1960, having been supervised by Beno Eckmann and Ernst Specker. His dissertation was on homotopy and abelian categories. He served...
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Mermin, and a closely related model was presented by Simon B. Kochen and Ernst Specker. The existence of these models is related to the fact that Gleason's...
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He studied at ETH Zurich from 1967–73. He was a student in Zürich of Ernst Specker and Hans Läuchli in mathematical logic, (Diploma in Mathematics and...
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Quantum contextuality (section Kochen and Specker)
Kochen–Specker theorem Mermin–Peres square KCBS pentagram Quantum nonlocality Quantum foundations Quantum indeterminacy S. Kochen and E.P. Specker, "The...
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Singhi Alexander Soifer Vera Sós Ernst Specker Joel Spencer Cameron Leigh Stewart Doug Stinson Arthur Harold Stone Ernst G. Straus Mathukumalli V. Subbarao...
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announcement of the result in an earlier paper of his from 1941, and by Ernst Specker who gave a different proof in his Habilitationsschrift of 1951, proof...
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the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University where he attended lectures by Ernst Steinitz, Adolf Kneser, Max Dehn, Erhard Schmidt, and Rudolf Sturm. When...
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motivated later work by John Bell, Ernst Specker and Simon Kochen that led to the result often called the Kochen–Specker theorem, which likewise shows that...
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mathematician Jakob Steiner (1796–1863), mathematician and physicist Ernst Specker (1920–2011), mathematician Eduard Stiefel (1909–1978), mathematician...
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was shown in 1937 by Reinhold Baer to not be free abelian, although Ernst Specker proved in 1950 that all of its countable subgroups are free abelian...
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Heinz Hopf Doctoral students Alfred Aeppli Erwin Bolthausen Alfred Frölicher Hans Grauert Peter J. Huber Michel Kervaire Ernst Specker Urs Stammbach...
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name from the discoverer, Marita Specks, who collected the first known specimen in Tanzania with her husband Ernst Specks in 1999. Werner Rauh (1999). "Euphorbia...
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Stephen Schlossberg, 90, American union leader. Ernst Specker, 91, Swiss mathematician (Kochen–Specker theorem). Frank Stephens, 98, Australian surgeon...
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Comprehension is equivalent to a finite conjunction of its instances, In 1953, Ernst Specker showed that the axiom of choice is false in NF (without urelements)...
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Carswell Smart (Assessor 1979–1983) Vladimir Smirnov (Assessor 1979–1983) Ernst Specker (Assessor 1966–1969) Frits Staal (Treasurer 1969–1975) Friedrich Stadler...
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Lawvere Founds synthetic differential geometry 1967 Simon Kochen–Ernst Specker Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics 1967 Jean-Louis Verdier Defines...
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(1965–1979; President 1970–1976), Wolfgang Stegmüller (1965–1969), Ernst Specker (1970–1977), Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus (1972–1981), Anne Troelstra (1977–2000)...
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The Ernst Jung Prize is a prize awarded annually for excellence in biomedical sciences. The Ernst Jung Foundation, funded by Hamburg merchant Ernst Jung...
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(Basel) 1968–69 Walter Nef (Bern) 1970–71 Roger Bader (Neuchâtel) 1972–73 Ernst Specker (ETH Zurich) 1974–75 André Haefliger (Geneva) 1976–77 Heinrich Kleisli...
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his PhD in Mathematics from ETH Zurich in 1978 under supervision of Ernst P. Specker and has been a faculty member at Pennsylvania State University since...
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1–56, doi:10.2307/1970696, ISSN 0003-486X, JSTOR 1970696, MR 0265151 Specker, Ernst (1957), "Zur Axiomatik der Mengenlehre (Fundierungs- und Auswahlaxiom)"...
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