Frank Ramsey
Author | : Cheryl Misak |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2020-02-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780191074813 |
ISBN-13 | : 0191074810 |
Rating | : 4/5 (810 Downloads) |
Download or read book Frank Ramsey written by Cheryl Misak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an equal. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. This amiable shambling bear of a man was an ardent socialist, a believer in free love, and an intimate of the Bloomsbury set. For the first time Cheryl Misak tells the full story of his extraordinary life.