Ebook: Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of game theory: from chess to social science, 1900-1960

"The strangest states of mind": chess, psychology and Emanuel Lasker's Kampf. "Deeply rooted, yet alien" : Hungarian Jews and Mathematicians. From Budapest to Göttingen: an apprenticeship in modern mathematics. "The futile search for the perfect formula": Von Neumann's minimax theorem. Equilibrium on trial: the Austrian interwar critics. Wrestling with complexity: Wirtschaftsprognose and beyond. Ethics and the excluded middle: Karl Menger and social science in interwar Vienna. From austroliberalism to Anschluss: Morgenstern and the Viennese Economists in the 1930's. Mathematics and the social order: Von Neumann's return to game theory. Ars combinatoria: creating the Theory of games. Morgenstern's catharsis. Von Neumann's war. Social science and the "present danger": game theory and psychology at the RAND Corporation, 1946 -- 1960;This book dramatically reconstructs the creation of game theory in the first half of the twentieth century by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern.