4 papers
Why `Fair Market Valuations' are Inappropirate for Employee-Owned Firms and Partnerships
David Ellerman
The usual formulas for the fair market valuation of a firm at time include the profits accruing to the shares at time from the use of wage or salaried labor in the future.…
The Way from Rota to Quantum Mechanics
David Ellerman
This paper traces an intellectual journey or \textit{Way} (in the sense of a Tao) that starts with some unfinished work of Gian-Carlo Rota on making a logic of equivalence relation…
A Fundamental Duality in the Mathematical and Natural Sciences: From Logic to Biology
David Ellerman
This is an essay in what might be called ``mathematical metaphysics.'' There is a fundamental duality that run through mathematics and the natural sciences. The duality starts as t…
Where does the Born Rule come from? Superposition
David Ellerman
The Born Rule plays a critical role in quantum mechanics (QM) since it supplies the link between the mathematical formalism and experimental results in terms of probabilities. The…