Sidney Perkowitz uncovers the pioneering work of the German physicist and philosopher Grete Hermann, who sparred with the ...

Between 1942 and 1945, four refugees from Vienna each published a ground-breaking – seminal – book.* They left their country after Austria was taken over by fascists in 1934 and by Nazi Germany in ...

Two recent books explore such issues ... provided a new basis for modern mathematical economics. Princeton's John von Neumann, who invented game theory, had searched in vain for ways to make ...

It's been 60 years since the first BASIC programme ran at Dartmouth College. János Kemény developed the language with a ...

The book will have served its purpose if it succeeds in making ... Oskar Morgenstern (1902–1977) was a German economist who — along with John von Neumann — founded the mathematical field of game ...

This brings to mind the curves of famous mathematician John von Neumann who noted: “With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk”. Trump managed to ...

Collected Works. General Editor: Prof. A. H. Taub. Vol. 4: Continuous Geometry and other Topics. Pp. x + 516. Vol. 5: Design of Computers, Theory of Automata and ...

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The book “The Strategy Dialogues,” by Dr. John Hillen, a member of Enlightenment Capital‘s advisory board and a previous Wash100 awardee, has reached the top of several Amazon best-seller ...

Register to get your ticket here. After World War II, John von Neumann laid out the architecture for modern computers. Every computer needs input and output, a CPU for control and arithmetic ...

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