Subject: Re: [HM] Oskar Morgenstern (was: Minimax)
From: Thomas L Bartlow (thomas.bartlow@villanova.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 21 1999 - 15:46:29 EST
On Dec 2, James A. Landau wrote, "von Neumann published his proof of the
Minimax Theorem (in Game Theory) in 1928 (Had he started to collaborate
with Morgenstern by then? Was Morgenstern a mathematician or "merely"
an economist?)."
Information on the Morgenstern-von Neumann collaboration can be found
in three essays in Toward a history of game theory, edited by E. Roy
Weintraub, Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.
"New insights into the collaboration between John von Neumann and Oskar
Morgenstern on the Theory of games and economic behavior" by Urs Rellstab
"Oskar Morgenstern's contribution to the development of the theory of games"
by Andrew Schotter
"What were von Neumann and Morgenstern trying to accomplish?" by Philip
Mirowski
Thomas L Bartlow
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