Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900–1960
Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics

Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory

From Chess to Social Science, 1900–1960

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Robert Leonard
Robert Leonard
2010 • 421 pages

A reconstruction of the creation of game theory in the twentieth century by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern.

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Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics is a 4-book series first released in 1989 with contributions by Philip Mirowski, Simon J. Cook, and Robert Leonard.

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