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

This book is about the creation of game theory in the first half of the twentieth century. A dramatic reconstruction shows how game theory was related to debates in economics and mathematics, the social and political upheaval of the period, and the dramatic personal histories of its two architects.Leonard, Robert J. is the author of 'Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900-1960 (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)', published 2010 under ISBN 9780521562669 and ISBN 052156266X.