Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

Author : Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)

Hardback

Published : Thursday 27 February 2020

ISBN : 9780198755357

Price : €29.25

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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

by Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)

Hardback

27 Feb 2020

PHILOSOPHY
>> Logic

€29.25

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Frank Ramsey was a brilliant Cambridge philosopher, mathematician, and economist who died in 1930 at 26 having made landmark contributions to decision theory, game theory, mathematics, logic, semantics, philosophy of science, and the theory of truth. This rich biography tells the story of his extraordinary life and intellectual achievement.

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.

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