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The world as a mathematical game

John von Neumann and twentieth century science / Giorgio Israel ; Anna Millan Gasca. - Basel : Birkhäuser, 2009. - XII, 207 S. : Ill.

ISBN 978-3-7643-9895-8

From the contents Introduction.- János Neumann's early years.- Von Neumann and the mathematics of Goettingen.- A mathematician between past and present.- 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.