Frank Ramsey
Subtitle: A Sheer Excess of Powers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 06, 2020
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780198755357
Description: When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an equal. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. This amiable shambling bear of a man was an ardent socialist, a believer in free love, and an intimate of the Bloomsbury set. For the first time Cheryl Misak tells the full story of his extraordinary life.
Notes: Source title: Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers