Mathematician:Simon Bernhard Kochen

Mathematician

Belgian-born Canadian mathematician, working in the fields of model theory, number theory and quantum mechanics.

Nationality

Canadian

History

• Born: 14 August 1934, Antwerpen, Belgium

Theorems and Definitions

• Ax-Kochen Theorem (with James Burton Ax)
• Kochen-Specker Theorem (with Ernst Paul Specker)
• Kochen-Stone Theorem (with Marshall Harvey Stone)

• Free Will Theorem (with John Horton Conway)
• Strong Free Will Theorem (with John Horton Conway)

Results named for Simon Bernhard Kochen can be found here.

Publications

• 1965: Diophantine problems over local fields. I (American Journal of Mathematics Vol. 87: pp. 605 – 630) (with James B. Ax)

• 1965: Diophantine problems over local fields. II (American Journal of Mathematics Vol. 87: pp. 631 – 648) (with James B. Ax)

• 1966: Diophantine problems over local fields. III (Annals of Mathematics Ser. 2 Vol. 83: pp. 437 – 456) (with James B. Ax)

• 1967: The problem of hidden variables in quantum mechanics (Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics Vol. 17: pp. 59 – 88) (with Ernst Paul Specker)

• 2006: The Free Will Theorem (Foundations of Physics Vol. 36, no. 10: p. 1441) (with John H. Conway)

• 2009: The Strong Free Will Theorem (Not. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 56, no. 2: pp. 226 – 232) (with John H. Conway)