dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-11T13:43:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-04-11T13:43:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-09-28 | |
dc.identifier | doi:10.17170/kobra-202304027751 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/14575 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | eng |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | von Neumann | eng |
dc.subject | RAND | eng |
dc.subject | Nash | eng |
dc.subject | Morgenstern | eng |
dc.subject | Game Theory | eng |
dc.subject | zero sum | eng |
dc.subject | saddle point | eng |
dc.subject | pure strategy | eng |
dc.subject | mixed strategy | eng |
dc.subject | Shapley | eng |
dc.subject | Navy Operations Evaluation | eng |
dc.subject | Linear Programming | eng |
dc.subject | Scoop | eng |
dc.subject | Dantzig | eng |
dc.subject | Berlin Air Lift | eng |
dc.subject | Geisler | eng |
dc.subject | Leontief | eng |
dc.subject | Koopmans | eng |
dc.subject | Charnes | eng |
dc.subject | Simon | eng |
dc.subject | ORSA | eng |
dc.subject | TIMS | eng |
dc.subject | Künzui | eng |
dc.subject | Henn | eng |
dc.subject | Zimmermann | eng |
dc.subject | Beckmann | eng |
dc.subject | Flood | eng |
dc.subject | Churchman | eng |
dc.subject | payoff table | eng |
dc.subject | transportation problem | eng |
dc.subject | travelling salesman problem | eng |
dc.subject | diet problem | eng |
dc.subject | dynamic programming | eng |
dc.subject | Quadratic Assignment | eng |
dc.subject | abstractification | eng |
dc.subject.ddc | 300 | |
dc.subject.ddc | 510 | |
dc.subject.ddc | 900 | |
dc.title | Nominal Science without Data | eng |
dc.type | Working paper | |
dcterms.abstract | Expanding upon literature on early digital computers, this paper shows the role mathematicians have undertaken in founding the academic fields of Game Theory and Operations Research, and details how they were supported by the mathematics departments of military agencies in branches of the US Armed Services. This paper claims that application is only decoration. Other than astronomy, physics and engineering, where experiments generate data analysed with the aid of models and appropriate software on computers, Game Theory and Operations Research are not data driven but method driven and remain a branch of applied mathematics. They use the method of “abstractification” in economy and society to derive their models but lack a layer of empirical research needed to generate data and to apply their methods in economics and society. Therefore, their models were only nominal mathematics without application. | eng |
dcterms.accessRights | open access | |
dcterms.creator | Vahrenkamp, Richard | |
dcterms.extent | 44 Seiten | |
dc.contributor.corporatename | Kassel, Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften | ger |
dc.subject.swd | Von Neumann, John | ger |
dc.subject.swd | Rand Corporation | ger |
dc.subject.swd | Nash, John F. | ger |
dc.subject.swd | Morgenstern, Oskar | ger |
dc.subject.swd | Spieltheorie | ger |
dc.subject.swd | Gleichgewichtspunkt <Spieltheorie> | ger |
dc.subject.swd | Shapley, Lloyd S. | ger |
dc.subject.swd | Lineare Optimierung | ger |
dc.subject.swd | Transportproblem | ger |
dc.subject.swd | Travelling-salesman-Problem | ger |
dc.subject.swd | Dynamische Optimierung | ger |
dc.subject.swd | Quadratisches Zuordnungsproblem | ger |
dc.title.subtitle | A New Approach to Evaluating Game Theory and Operations Research | eng |
dc.type.version | updatedVersion | |
dcterms.source.series | Working Paper on the History of Computing | |
dcterms.source.volume | No. 3/2018 | |
kup.iskup | false | |