On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Chuck Grimes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nice to see mention of John von Neumann. He is worth a study on his own. I > read a bio of him a long time ago. Drank himself to death, but managed to > remathematize society in the grand tradition of the French. Lagrange > multipliers, Hamiltonians, not to mention Fourier Transforms, set theory, > computers, etc. He was part of the Weimar emigre math group that did the > wartime calculation tables for ballistics...somewhere in the basement of > NYU > under Richard Courant. They were also doing some of the number crunching > for > the Manhatten Project. > Julio, I glanced through this chapter and it looks like an interesting project. Look forward to reading it in more detail soon. But certainly a refreshing alternative presentation as compared to, say, Samuelson. Chuck, You may wish to check out Philip Mirowski's "Machine Dreams", where von Neumann's role in the post-war formulation of economic theory is treated in considerable detail. This book is extremely dense and a very difficult read and I don't feel competent to critique it in detail. But Mirowski's intellectual range is nothing short of astonishing.. -raghu.
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