Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

by Cheryl Misak

Book Overview

The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019875535X
• ISBN13: 9780198755357
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"