Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of game theory:from chess to social science, 1900--1960
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Cambridge University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | 2010. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Historical perspectives on Modern economics |
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Carrier Form: | x, 390 p.: ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780521562669 (hardback) 052156266X |
Index Number: | F224 |
CLC: | F224.32 |
Call Number: | F224.32/L581 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-379) and index. "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 ... |