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The Origins of Deutsche Physik (1910s)
“Just as the cubists had an inability to paint decently, so, here lies together the audacity and the inability the theoretical physicists want to impose…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Battle Line at Louvain (1914)
“Where they burn books, they will also burn people” — Heinrich Heine
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Nash's Invention of Non-Cooperative Game Theory (1949-50)
"The entire edifice of game theory rests on two theorems: von Neumann’s min-max theorem of 1928 and Nash’s equilibrium theorem of 1950" - Nasar (1998)
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Jørgen Veisdal
The Entscheidungsproblem (1930s)
In the early 1930s, the provincial town of Princeton, New Jersey was already well on its way to becoming a hotbed for mathematical exploration.
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Jørgen Veisdal
John von Neumann's 1935 letter to Oswald Veblen
The book John von Neumann: Selected Letters* by Miklós Rédei (2005) is a fascinating collection of 150 of John von Neumann (1903-57)’s correspondences…
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Jørgen Veisdal
The von Neumann-Morgenstern Collaboration (1938-43)
“It will be a strange essay for economists, but it can be important. Very.”
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Abel: The Mozart of Mathematics
“Although Abel shared with many mathematicians a complete lack of musical talent, I will not sound absurd if I compare his kind of productivity and his…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Essays on the history of mathematics. 10k+ subscribers. Substack Bestseller (2024) 🥇, Grow Feature (2022) 📈, Featured Substack Newsletter (2021) 🌟
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