The World as a Mathematical Game John von Neumann and Twentieth Century Science /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Israel, Giorgio (Συγγραφέας), Gasca, Ana Millán (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2009.
• Σειρά: Science Networks. Historical Studies ; 38
• Θέματα: History.; Mathematics.; Physics.; History of Science.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

Galileo and Newton’s work towards the mathematisation of the physical world; Leibniz’s universal logical calculus; the Enlightenment’s mathématique sociale. John von Neumann inherited all these aims and philosophical intuitions, together with an idea that grew up around the Vienna Circle of an ethic...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• János Neumann’s Early Years
• Von Neumann and the Mathematics of Göttingen
• A Mathematician Between Past and Future
• Von Neumann in the United States
• Beyond Mathematics: von Neumann’s Scientific Activity in the 1940s and 1950s.