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

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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.
Subjects:
Von Neumann, John, > 1903-1957.
Morgenstern, Oskar, > 1902-1977.
Game theory > History.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2010 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900–1960
Format: Electronic eBook
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.