A new way of understanding the wave function: Shan Gao: The meaning of the wave function. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, x+189pp, $140 HB

Metascience 27 (1):87-90 (2017)
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This is a review of a book by Shan Gao called "The meaning of the wave function", Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017

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10.1007/s11016-017-0245-3

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