Frank Ramsey

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.

Foreword: 'Mind and Heart'; Part I: Boyhood; 1 The Ramseys; 2 Winchester Nearly Unmade Him; 3 'We really live in a great time for thinking'; Part II: The Cambridge Man; 4 Undergraduate Life; 5 'To my generation, he was rather frightening'; 6 Ramsey and the Early Wittgenstein; 7 Vienna Interlude; 8 'The fundamentals are so philosophical'; 9 The New Don; 10 Passion Found; Part III: An Astonishing Half Decade; 11 Settling Down in Work and Life; 12 Revolution in Philosophy; 13 Two Crises; 14 Cambridge Economics; 15 Ramseyan Economics: The Feasible First Best; 16 1928 Return to Mathematics; 17 Wittgenstein Comes Home; 18 'The problem of philosophy must be divided if I am to solve it'; 19 The End and Meaning of a Life