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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 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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The Best Books on: Kurt Gödel
Hi there A few mathematicians’ biographies are especially notable, both in terms of the mathematicians’ achievements and their personalities. Nash, von…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Best Books on: The History of Game Theory
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Jørgen Veisdal
The Legend of Abraham Wald
Historians of science sometimes lament the fact certain historical figures are famous for the wrong reasons.
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Jørgen Veisdal
Karl Menger's Vienna Colloquium (1928-36)
In the history of mathematics and economics, Karl Menger is a fairly anonymous figure. This, perhaps, for a few reasons. Although he was a prodigy, Karl…
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Jørgen Veisdal
Oskar Morgenstern's Transformation (1925-38)
Unlike his collaborator John von Neumann (1903-57), economist Oskar Morgenstern (1902-77)’s name today remains synonymous with more-or-less a single…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Kurt Gödel's Brilliant Madness
Hungarian polymath John von Neumann (1903–1957) once wrote that Kurt Gödel was “absolutely irreplaceable” and “in a class by himself”. Describing his…
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Jørgen Veisdal
Gödel’s Constitutional Quarrel (1947)
“The examiner was intelligent enough to quickly quieten Gödel and say ‘Oh god, let’s not go into this’ and broke off the examination at this point…
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