Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of game theory [electronic resource] : from chess to social science, 1900--1960 / Robert Leonard.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Historical perspectives on modern economics.
Main Author: Leonard, Robert, 1962-
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Historical perspectives on modern economics.
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Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900–1960
Format: Electronic eBook

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a "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. 
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600 0 0 |a Morgenstern, Oskar,  |d 1902-1977. 
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