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050	0	0	_aHB144 _b.L46 2010
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100	1		_aLeonard, Robert, _d1962- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aVon Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of game theory : _bfrom chess to social science, 1900--1960 / _cRobert Leonard.
246	3		_aVon Neumann, Morgenstern, & the Creation of Game Theory
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 390 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aHistorical perspectives on modern economics
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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.
520			_aDrawing on a wealth of archival material, including personal correspondence and diaries, Robert Leonard tells the fascinating story of the creation of game theory by Hungarian Jewish mathematician John von Neumann and Austrian economist Oskar Morgenstern. Game theory first emerged amid discussions of the psychology and mathematics of chess in Germany and fin-de-siècle Austro-Hungary. In the 1930s, on the cusp of anti-Semitism and political upheaval, it was developed by von Neumann into an ambitious theory of social organization. It was shaped still further by its use in combat analysis in World War II and during the Cold War. Interweaving accounts of the period's economics, science, and mathematics, and drawing sensitively on the private lives of von Neumann and Morgenstern, Robert Leonard provides a detailed reconstruction of a complex historical drama.
600	1	0	_aVon Neumann, John, _d1903-1957.
600	1	0	_aMorgenstern, Oskar, _d1902-1977.
650		0	_aGame theory _xHistory.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521562669
830		0	_aHistorical perspectives on modern economics.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511778278
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