Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of game theory :
from chess to social science, 1900--1960 /
Robert Leonard.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st paperback edition. |
| Series: | Historical perspectives on modern economics.
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| Notes: | First published: 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: x, 390 p. : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9781107609266 (paperback) |
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| 500 | |a First published: 2010. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a "The strangest states of mind": chess, psychology and Emanuel Lasker's Kampf -- "Deeply rooted, yet alien" : Hungarian Jews and Mathematicians -- From Budapest to Göttingen: an apprenticeship in modern mathematics -- "The futile search for the perfect formula": Von Neumann's minimax theorem -- Equilibrium on trial: the Austrian interwar critics -- Wrestling with complexity: Wirtschaftsprognose and beyond -- Ethics and the excluded middle: Karl Menger and social science in interwar Vienna -- From austroliberalism to Anschluss: Morgenstern and the Viennese Economists in the 1930's -- Mathematics and the social order: Von Neumann's return to game theory -- Ars combinatoria: creating the Theory of games -- Morgenstern's catharsis -- Von Neumann's war -- Social science and the "present danger": game theory and psychology at the RAND Corporation, 1946--1960. | |
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| 600 | 0 | 0 | |a Morgenstern, Oskar, |d 1902-1977. |
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