Simon Cooking

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Simon Bernhard Cooking (born August 14, 1934 in Antwerp ) is an American mathematician who deals with number theory, logic (model theory) and quantum mechanics .

Cooking received his PhD from Princeton University in 1958 with Alonzo Church ( Ultrafiltered Products and Arithmetical Extensions ). He has been in Princeton since 1967, where he has been the Henry Burchard Fine Professor of Mathematics since 1994. From 1989 to 1992 he was chairman of the department. In 1966/7 and 1978/9 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .

In 1967 he and James Ax received the Cole Prize for Number Theory for their 1965/66 work on the solvability of polynomials in -adic numbers.

In 1967 he proved the Cooking-Specker theorem in quantum mechanics. In 2004 he and John Horton Conway demonstrated the “Free Will Theorem”, which clearly states that if the experimenter has even a small form of free will (not predetermined behavior), this also applies to all elementary particles.

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  1. Cooking, Specker: The problem of hidden variables in quantum mechanics. Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol. 17, 1967, pp. 59-88
  2. ^ Conway, Cooking The Free Will Theorem , Foundations of Physics, Volume 36, 2006, p. 1441, Arxiv, pdf