Neumann John Oskar Morgenstern (131 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Exlibrary with usual library markings. Page yellowing. Heavily repaired cover. Taped, including tape around spine. Taped hinges. A few pages which don't affect the text. Ink markings on a couple pages. ; 641 pages.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. First published in 1944, this title is a seminal text in the field of game theory. The book is square and unmarked; creasing and edgewear to the front wrap and the spine; the back wrap is missing; Mylar protected.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Eleventh Printing. 641 pages. 11th printing, 1974; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 641 pages.

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XVIII, 625 S. Verlagsfrisch. Aus der Beschäftigung Morgensterns mit dem 1928 von John von Neumann veröffentlichten Artikel "Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele" erwuchs nach dem Zusammentreffen der beiden Wissenschaftler 1939 an der Princeton University nicht nur eine lebenslange Freundschaft. Vielmehr entstand aus ihrer Zusammenarbeit einer der bedeutendsten Beiträge zur Wirtschaftstheorie im 20. Jahrhundert: Mit der "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" (1944) schufen sie die Grundlage für die ökonomische Anwendung der Spieltheorie. Erstmals war es damit gelungen, eine Theorie über interaktives Verhalten in ein Modell zu gießen. Die Spieltheorie überträgt mit Hilfe der Mathematik Erkenntnisse über das menschliche Verhalten bei Spielen wie Schach oder Poker auf die Wirtschaft. Solche Spiele haben mit dem Verhalten von Unternehmen am Markt gemeinsam, daß dazu erfolgversprechende Strategien benötigt werden. Unternehmen können mit Hilfe der Spieltheorie ihre Vorgehensweise auf den Märkten und gegenüber der Konkurrenz verbessern. Auf dem Gebiet der Ökonomie sorgte die Spieltheorie "für einen neuen methodologischen Ansatz für das Studium oligopolistischer Entscheidungsprozesse und für die Formulierung von Marktstrategien" (Karl Pribram).Im Kommentarband zu dieser Ausgabe erläutert James M. Buchanan (Fairfax/USA), warum er die Spieltheorie für den wichtigsten Beitrag zur Wirtschaftswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert hält; Werner Güth (Berlin) und Harmut Kliemt (Duisburg) untersuchen die Auswirkungen der Spieltheorie auf andere Wissenschaftsdisziplinen; Gerhard Schwödiauer (Magdeburg) stellt die Entstehungsgeschichte der "Theory of Games" und die Vita der beiden Autoren dar; Reinhard Selten (Bonn) beschreibt die konzeptionellen Grundlagen der Spieltheorie einst und jetzt. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100 24 x 16 cm, Leder mit Kopffarbschnitt Faksimile der 1944 in Princeton erschienenen Erstausgabe. Eines von 300 nummerierten Exemplaren.

Condition: Gut. THIRD edition with a neu preface. VIII,641 pages. Nur der Umschlag mit stärkeren Gebrauchsspuren, sonst SEHR gutes Exemplar . We offer a lot of books on PHYSICS and MATHEMATICS on stock in EXCELLENT shape). Only the cover with stronger signs of wear, otherwise VERY good copy . Am oberen Rand des Vorsatzes mit Besitzvermerk eines bedeutenden Physikers ( Wikipedia!) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200 Originalleinen mit Original-Schutzumschlag. 24cm.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; 8th printing of the 1953 3rd edition; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; reference number and bar code taped to spine; scuffing, light soiling, and shelf wear to exterior; corners bumped; fading to pages; information about book taped to front endpaper; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. No dust jacket.

16.5x24 cm. viii+641 pages. Hardcover. Cover corners slightly chafed. Top and bottom of spine slightly chafed. Inner cover and first white page slightly yellowing. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs. The book is in : English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1953. Second Printing (1955) of the Third Edition. 641 pages. Good in Fair Dust Jacket.Tight binding; clean pages and covers; contemporary owner stamp on front endpaper; small marks on covers; moderate wear; dust jacket is quite worn with some scuffing and chipping; spine faded; stain on rear panel; price not clipped ($12.50). An early printing of the groundbreaking book that is the basis of the field of game theory. Scarce. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Third Edition. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. Red and white dust jacket. Third edition, eight printing out of all editions. The dust jacket is in rough condition, with rips along the edges and water staining, but the book inside is in very solid condition. Inscription from previous owner on flyleaf. A handful of pages unfortunately have faint pen annotation, but the markings are never distracting or obfuscative.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. In fair condition. Green cloth boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine collapsed; cloth at head chipped. Gilt lettering and title label on spine normally dulled from shelf-wear, but still attractive. Top edge sprayed black/grey; dulled. Toning around edges of front board; as well as light soiling. Toning throughout text-block; mostly to edges of leaves. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions if any, before purchasing. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, first published in 1944 by Princeton University Press, is a book by mathematician John von Neumann (1903-1957) and economist Oskar Morgenstern (1902-1977), which is considered the groundbreaking text that created the interdisciplinary research field of game theory. The book is based partly on earlier research by von Neumann, published in 1928 under the German title Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele (On the Theory of Board Games). The derivation of expected utility from its axioms appeared in an appendix to the Second Edition (1947). This theory allowed mathematical statisticians and economists to treat decision-making under uncertainty. Game theory was developed extensively in the 1950s, and was explicitly applied to evolution in the 1970s, although similar developments go back at least as far as the 1930s. Game theory has been widely recognized as an important tool in many fields. This is a SECOND EDITION COPY, which is the first to include the derivation of expected utility from its axioms. Clean copy; gift quality. RAREA1947FLMB 05/24 - HK1587 FORN-SHELF-0537-BB-2505-HKREV884.

HB ORANGE. Condition: good. 2ND. General Wear: small bookplate, foxing, ex-library markings, pockets and "PROPERTY OF U.S. ARMY" stamps from SCEL, Technical Documents Center DATE PUBLISHED: 1947 EDITION: 2ND 641.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Second Edition, first printing (1st ed., 1944). xviii, 641 pp; 103 figs. Original cloth. Embossed stamp on title page. Signature of former owner on flyleaf. Else Very Good, without dust jacket. 'The notions of a minimax solution, first proposed by Waldgrave, and of maximization of expected utility, diminishing marginal utility, and risk aversion put forward by Daniel Bernoulli (1738) in his analysis of the St. Petersburg paradox, lie at the core of game theory. These elements were not assembled until von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944) noted in an appendix on axiomatic utility theory in their second edition (1947, 629) that Bernoulli's moral expectation, which equated ability to the logarithm of wealth, satisfied their conditions for rationality' (Robert W. Dimand & Mary Ann Dimand, 'Strategic Games from Waldgrave to Borel,' in E. Roy Weintraub (ed.), Toward a History of Game Theory, 1992, p. 17).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. By John Von Neumann, and Oskar Morgenstern. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1947. Stated Second Edition. Provenance of Oscar Kempthorne. 641 p, original cloth binding measures 9.5 x 6.5 , 8vo. In fair condition. Boards are normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine bumped; gilt lettering normally dulled & soiled, but legible. Top edge of text-block stained brown (dulled). Front gutter cracked at head. Ownership signature, in ink, found on top edge of front end-page: Oscar Kempthorne . Normal toning in margins. Binding intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, first published in 1944 by Princeton University Press, is a book by mathematician John von Neumann (1903-1957) and economist Oskar Morgenstern (1902-1977), which is considered the groundbreaking text that created the interdisciplinary research field of game theory. The book is based partly on earlier research by von Neumann, published in 1928 under the German title Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele (On the Theory of Board Games). The derivation of expected utility from its axioms appeared in an appendix to the Second Edition (1947). This theory allowed mathematical statisticians and economists to treat decision-making under uncertainty. Game theory was developed extensively in the 1950s, and was explicitly applied to evolution in the 1970s, although similar developments go back at least as far as the 1930s. Game theory has been widely recognized as an important tool in many fields. Oscar Kempthorne (1919 2000) was a British statistician and geneticist known for his research on randomization-analysis and the design of experiments, which had wide influence on research in agriculture, genetics, and other areas of science. Born in St Tudy, Cornwall and educated in England, Kempthorne moved to the United States, where he was for many decades a professor of statistics at Iowa State University. RAREA1947BNOB 06/25 - HK2518.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition of von Neumann and Morgenstern's groundbreaking text that created the interdisciplinary research field of game theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947. Publisher's original brown cloth boards, lacking dust jacket; pp. xviii, 641. A good or better copy. Binding is sturdy, light shelfwear and rubbing to boards with some fraying to extremities, small faint dampstain to top edge of textblock, minor crease along spine. Owner's name inked out on flyleaf with a faint pen mark below, else internally clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 3rd Edition. Princeton University Press, 3d edition, 1953. XX + 641 pages. Fine Hardcover, no dj. Burgundy cloth, Gilt spine title. Clean unmarked throughout except hardly visible name stamped in the upper corner of the title page and on the top and bottom edges as well. Perfect binding and hinges. 9.5"x6.25"x1.7". be48.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. The classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. "Posterity may regard this book as one of the major scientific achievements of the first half of the twentieth century." - American Mathematical Society Bulletin. "The appearance of a book of this calibre is indeed a rare event." - American Economic Review. "I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man." - Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe. 1944 First edition. xviii, 625 p. Name Index. Subject Index. Index of Figures. Tight and unmarked with average wear to original brown cloth. Professionally cloth rebacked preserving original backstrip. Lacking dust jacket and Corrigenda slip. 9.6" x 6.6". A sound first edition example of this momentous work. Sraffa 4345, Pressman p.189. ; 8vo.

Original Orange Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition, First Printing. No ownership marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Edition. "Posterity may regard this book as one of the major scientific achievements of the first half of the twentieth century." - American Mathematical Society Bulletin. "The appearance of a book of this calibre is indeed a rare event." - American Economic Review. "I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man." - Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe. First published in 1944. xviii, 641 pp. Name Index. Subject Index. Index of Figures. Average wear to original terra cotta cloth. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Sraffa 4345, Pressman p.189. 9.5" x 6.6"; Sm 4to.

First edition of von Neumann and Morgenstern's landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John von Neumann on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With the original âCorrigendaâ slip laid in. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Books signed by von Neumann are exceptionally rare. âOne of the major scientific contributions of the 20th centuryâ (Goldstine & Wigner). John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern conceived a groundbreaking mathematical theory of economic and social organization, based on a theory of games of strategy. Not only would this revolutionize economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations. âHad it merely called to our attention the existence and exact nature of certain fundamental gaps in economic theory, the Theory of Games and Economic Behavior⦠would have been a book of outstanding importance. But it does more than that. It is essentially constructive: where existing theory is considered to be inadequate, the authors put in its place a highly novel analytical apparatus designed to cope with the problem. It would be doing the authors an injustice to say that theirs is a contribution to economics only. The scope of the book is much broader. The techniques applied by the authors in tackling economic problems are of sufficient generality to be valid in political science, sociology, or even military strategy. The applicability to games proper (chess and poker) is obvious from the title. Moreover, the book is of considerable interest from a purely mathematical point of view⦠The appearance of a book of the caliber of the Theory of Games is indeed a rare eventâ (World of Mathematics II:1267-84). However, "it would be doing the authors an injustice to say that theirs is a contribution to economics only. The scope of the book is much broader. The techniques applied by the authors in tackling economic problems are of sufficient generality to be valid in political science, sociology, or even military strategy. The applicability to games proper (chess and poker) is obvious from the title. Moreover, the book is of considerable interest from a purely mathematical point of view." (Hurwicz in World of Mathematics, vol 2). In the words of two Nobel Prize-winning economists, "a landmark in the history of ideas" and a seminal work in mathematics and economics, which "has had a profound impact on statistics" (Dorfman, Samuelson & Solow, Linear Programming and Economic Analysis pp 417, 445).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THE FOUNDATIONAL BOOK ON GAME THEORY. IN OUTSTANDING CONDITION. "Probabilists have studied games of chance since the beginning of probability theory. Strategic games, whose outcome depends on the skill of the participants in choosing a strategy of play, received widespread attention among mathematicians and economists only with the publication in 1944 of the first edition of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior." (Dimand and Dimand, "The Early History of the Theory of Strategic Games from Waldegrave to Borel", 1992). In subsequent years, "game theory, it may reasonably be claimed, has proved to be one of the more significant scientific contributions of the twentieth century. Albeit haltingly and unevenly, and in a manner quite unforeseeable in 1944 when the Theory of Games and Economic Behavior was published, it has affected not only economics and political science but also evolutionary biology, ethics, and philosophy proper. Within economics, particular areas such as microeconomic theory, industrial organization, international trade, and experimental economics have all been reshaped under the theory's influence. Although game theory initially came from outside as a critical contribution, it has now been completely embraced by the economics discipline, as indicated by the awarding of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics to John Nash, John Harsányi, and Reinhard Selten in 1994, and to Robert Aumann and Thomas Schelling in 2005." (Robert Leonard, Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory, 2010.) Complete with the rare "Corrigenda" slip. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1944. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Book near-fine with just a hint of fading to spine, dust jacket with light edgewear, and a little spine fading (a common problem with this book). An outstanding copy: The dust jacket is notoriously prone to wear and this example is one of the nicest examples we've seen. Original cloth, original dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition, stated, of the foundational text of modern game theory, written by Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer, and polymath John von Neumann and German-American economist Oskar Morgenstern and published by Princeton University Press in 1947, three years after publication of the first edition. 8vo, hardcover, 641 pages, with over 100 figures in the text. With the scarce dust jacket. Arguably, one of the most important and influential disquisitions of the twentieth century, owing to its subsequent applications to the social sciences and strategic decision-making. Gentle bumping to extremities. Pin-sized damp stains along dj spine. Bumping and chipping to price-clipped dj, with open tears to spine head and rear top corner.