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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 shambling bear of a man was an ardent socialist, a believer in free love, and an intimate of the ...

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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers 2022, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780192856753

Paperback

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers 2020, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198755357

Hardcover