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John F. Nash Jr.'s Letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1957)
"There is general phenomenon, affecting mathematics and physics, of evolutionary elegantizing camou­f­lage"
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Jørgen Veisdal
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
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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The Birth of AI (1956)
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was an academic workshop sometimes considered to be the founding moment for artificial…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Great Purge (1933)
“If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” — Adolf…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Birth of the Institute for Advanced Study (1930)
"A first-rate research institution with no teachers, no students, no classes, only researchers protected from the vicissitudes and pressures of the…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Beautiful Life of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr (1928-2015). was born in Bluefield, West Virginia in 1928. He died in a car crash in New Jersey on the 23rd of May…
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Jørgen Veisdal
The Best Books on: The History of Game Theory
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Jørgen Veisdal
Nash's Bargaining Problem (1950)
Just before John Nash made his breakthrough discovery of the Nash equilibrium, he wrote his first paper on another problem later to be known as Nash’s…
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Jørgen Veisdal
Can We Survive Technology? — John von Neumann (1955)
“Present awful possibilities of nuclear warfare may give way to others even more awful. After global climate control becomes possible, perhaps all our…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Martians of Budapest
The Martians of Budapest”, sometimes referred to as simply “The Martians” is a colloquial term used to describe a group of prominent Hungarian…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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