Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of game theory

from chess to social science, 1900--1960

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read
Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of ...
Robert Leonard
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
January 3, 2023 | History

Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of game theory

from chess to social science, 1900--1960

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
390

Buy this book

Edition Availability
Cover of: Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of game theory

Add another edition?

Book Details


Published in

New York

Table of Contents

"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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Historical perspectives on modern economics, Historical perspectives on modern economics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
519.3
Library of Congress
HB144 .L46 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 390 p. :
Number of pages
390

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24585586M
ISBN 10
052156266X
ISBN 13
9780521562669
LCCN
2009034837
OCLC/WorldCat
436358398

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
January 3, 2023 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
December 25, 2022 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
December 23, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
August 19, 2020 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
January 9, 2011 Created by ImportBot Imported from Library of Congress MARC record.