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Rev. Mod. Phys. 65, 803–815 (1993)

Hidden variables and the two theorems of John Bell

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N. David Mermin
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-2501

Although skeptical of the prohibitive power of no-hidden-variables theorems, John Bell was himself responsible for the two most important ones. I describe some recent versions of the lesser known of the two (familiar to experts as the "Kochen-Specker theorem") which have transparently simple proofs. One of the new versions can be converted without additional analysis into a powerful form of the very much better known "Bell's Theorem," thereby clarifying the conceptual link between these two results of Bell.

© 1993 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.65.803
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10.1103/RevModPhys.65.803
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