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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leonard, Robert, 1962-

Series:

Historical perspectives on modern economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Game theory--History.

Game theory.

Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957.

Von Neumann, John.

Morgenstern, Oskar, 1902-1977.

Morgenstern, Oskar.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521562669

052156266X

OCLC:

436358398