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Before the formalism of quantum theory was introduced, Bose and Einstein in 1924 and, without using this formalism, Fermi in 1925 introduced statistics for indistinguishable particles. Due to the fact, however, that indistinguishable particles were immediately incorporated into the new theory by Dirac in 1926, indistinguishability has always been considered as a typical quantum phenomenon which transcends classical conceptions.
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Bach, A. (1990). Indistinguishability, Interchangeability, and Indeterminism. In: Cooke, R., Costantini, D. (eds) Statistics in Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 122. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0619-8_9
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