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

• Main Authors: Israel, Giorgio. (Author), Gasca, Ana Millǹ. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhũser Basel, 2009.
• Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies ; 38
• Subjects: Science > History.; Mathematics_$xHistory.; Physics > History.; Science, general.; History of Science.; History of Mathematics.; History of Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-9896-5

Galileo and Newton<U+0019>s work towards the mathematisation of the physical world; Leibniz<U+0019>s universal logical calculus; the Enlightenment<U+0019>s mathm̌atique sociale. John von Neumann inherited all these aims and philosophical intuitions, together with an idea that grew...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Introduction
• Jǹos Neumann's Early Years
• Von Neumann and the Mathematics of Gt̲tingen
• A Mathematician between Past and Future
• Von Neumann in the United States
• Beyond Mathematics: von Neumann's Scientific Activity in the 1940s and 1950s
• Concluding Remarks: von Neumann and Twentieth Century Science
• Chronology
• Bibliography
• Index of Names.