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

• Main Authors: Israel, Giorgio (Author), Gasca, Ana Millán (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2009.
• Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies ; 38
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.