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Nominal Science without Data

A New Approach to Evaluating Game Theory and Operations Research

Vahrenkamp, Richard

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.

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@unpublished{doi:10.17170/kobra-202304027751,
  author    ={Vahrenkamp, Richard},
  title    ={Nominal Science without Data},
  keywords ={300 and 510 and 900 and Von Neumann, John and Rand Corporation and Nash, John F. and Morgenstern, Oskar and Spieltheorie and Gleichgewichtspunkt  and Shapley, Lloyd S. and Lineare Optimierung and Transportproblem and Travelling-salesman-Problem and Dynamische Optimierung and Quadratisches Zuordnungsproblem},
  copyright  ={http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/},
  language ={en},
  year   ={2022-09-28}
}