nLab Pascual Jordan (changes)

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Pascual Jordan was one of the founders of quantum mechanics. For instance Jordan algebras of quantum observables are named after him.

A brief biography of his scientific life is in the appendix of

• Ivan Todorov, “Quantization is a mystery”, Bulg. J. Phys. 39 (2012) 107-149 (arXiv:1206.3116)

See also his Wikipedia entry

Selected writings

Early discussion of quantum mechanics (and apparently introducing that term):

• Max Born, Pascual Jordan, Zur Quantenmechanik, Zeitschrift für Physik 34 (1925) 858–888 [[doi:10.1007/BF01328531](https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01328531)]

and with emphasis on the Born rule and quantum probability:

• Pascual Jordan, Über eine neue Begründung der Quantenmechanik, Zeitschrift für Physik 40 (1927) 809–838 [[doi:10.1007/BF01390903](https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01390903)]

Introducing Jordan algebras:

• Pascual Jordan, Über eine Klasse nichtassociativer hyperkomplexer Algebren , Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen (1932) 569-575 [[eudml:59403](https://eudml.org/doc/59403)] [[eudml:59403](https://eudml.org/doc/59403),pdf]

• Pascual Jordan, John von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, On an algebraic generalization of the quantum mechanical formalism, Ann. Math. 35 (1934) 29-64 [[jstor:1968117](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1968117), doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02781-3_21]

Related entries

• Jordan algebra