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; Historical perspectives on modern economics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780521562669
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 Austrian interwar critics; title: Wrestling with complexity: Wirtschaftsprognose and beyond; title: Ethics and the excluded middle: Karl Menger and social science in interwar Vienna; title: From austroliberalism to Anschluss: Morgenstern and the Viennese Economists in the 1930's; title: Mathematics and the social order: Von Neumann's return to game theory; title: Ars combinatoria: creating 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.