Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of game theory
Subtitle: from chess to social science, 1900--1960
By: Robert Leonard.
Series: Historical perspectives on modern economics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521562669
Subjects: Von Neumann, John, -- 1903-1957; Morgenstern, Oskar, -- 1902-1977; Game theory -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The strangest states of mind" : chess, psychology and Emanuel Lasker's Kampf; title: "Deeply rooted yet alien" : Hungarian Jews and mathematicians; title: From Budapest to Göttingen : an apprenticeship in modern mathematics; title: "The futile search for the perfect formula" : von neumann's minimax theorem; title: Equilibrium on trial : the young Morgenstern and the Austrian school; title: Wrestling with complexity : Wirtschaftsprognose and beyond; title: Ethics and the excluded middle : Karl Menger and social science; title: From austroliberalism to Anschluss : the Viennese economists in the 1930's; title: Mathematics and the social order : von Neumann's return to game theory; title: Ars combinatoria : writing the theory of games; title: Morgenstern's catharsis; title: Von Neumann's war; title: Social science and the "present danger" : game theory and psychology at the RAND Corporation, 1946; title: 1960.