The book Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1932) by John von Neumann is an important early work in the development of quantum theory.[1]
The book was originally published in German in 1932 by Julius Springer, under the title Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik.[2] An English translation by Robert T. Beyer was published in 1955 by Princeton University Press. A Russian translation, edited by N. Bogolyubov, was published by Nauka in 1964. A new English edition, edited by Nicholas A. Wheeler, was published in 2018 by Princeton University Press.[3]
The book mainly summarizes results that von Neumann had published in earlier papers.[4][5][6][7][8] Its main significance may be its argument against the idea of hidden variables, on thermodynamic grounds.