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	Frank P. Ramsey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Plumpton Ramsey (February 22, 1903 – January 19, 1930) was a British mathematician, philosopher and economist.
		Ramsey was a good friend of economist John Maynard Keynes whose work on probability stimulated Ramsey to develop arguments for subjective probability (Bayesian probability).
		Frank Ramsey's younger brother, Arthur Michael Ramsey, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1961 to 1974.
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	Frank P. Ramsey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frank Plumpton Ramsey (February 22, 1903 – January 19, 1930) was a (The people of Great Britain) British (A person skilled in mathematics) mathematician, (A specialist in philosophy) philosopher and (An expert in the science of economics) economist.
		Ramsey was born in (A city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University) Cambridge where his father was president of (additional info and facts about Magdalene College) Magdalene College.
		Ramsey was a good friend of economist John Maynard Keynes whose work on (A measure of how likely it is that some event will occur) probability stimulated Ramsey to develop arguments for subjective probability ((additional info and facts about Bayesian probability) Bayesian probability).
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	RAMSEY
		At Cambridge, Ramsey became a senior scholar in 1921 and graduated as a Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1923.
		Ramsey was only the second person ever to be elected to a Fellowship at King's College having not previously studied at King's.
		Ramsey suffered an attack of jaundice in 1967 and was taken to Guy's Hospital in London for an operation.
	www.algana.co.uk /FamousNames/R/ramsey.htm (201 words)

	Encyclopedia: Frank P. Ramsey
		Ramsey theory, named for Frank P. Ramsey, is a branch of mathematics that studies the conditions under which order must appear.
		The Ramsey problem is a policy rule by Frank Ramsey concerning what price a monopolist should set, in order to maximize social welfare, which is defined for the problem as consumer surplus (thus, controversially, ignoring producer surplus).
		Arthur Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury (1904-1988) was Archbishop of Canterbury from June 1961 to 1974.
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	Frank Ramsey
		More precisely, Ramsey wants to show that: first, we can measure the degree of belief a subject has in a given proposition; and, second, that if the subject is rational his or her degrees of belief will have a measure satisfying the axioms of probability theory, a “subjective” probability.
		Ramsey saw that his method of using preferences among bets to quantify value differences required that the states defining the bets were themselves value-neutral.
		Ramsey concludes the paper on induction that he read to the Apostles in 1923 by saying “a type of inference is reasonable or unreasonable according to the relative frequencies with which it leads to truth and falsehood.
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	Frank Ramsey Article, FrankRamsey Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frank Plumpton Ramsey (February 22, 1903 - January 19, 1930)was a British mathematician and logician.
		Ramsey was a good friend of economist John Maynard Keynes whose work on probability stimulated Ramsey to develop arguments forsubjective probability (Bayesian probability).
		Frank Ramsey's younger brother, Arthur Michael Ramsey,was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1961 to 1974.
	www.anoca.org /he/theory/frank_ramsey.html (530 words)

	Frank P. Ramsey
		The Cambridge philosopher Frank P. Ramsey died tragically at the age of 26.
		Ramsey's second contribution was his theory of taxation (1927), generating the famous "Boiteux-Ramsey" pricing rule.
		Ramsey's third contribution was his exercise in determining optimal savings (1928), the famous "optimal growth" model -- what has since become known as the "Ramsey model" -- one of the earliest applications of the calculus of variations to economics.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/ramsey.htm (377 words)

	Ramsey, Frank Plumpton (1903–30) : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		But after failing to define the contents of beliefs as effectively as their degrees, Ramsey concludes that his view, that ‘the meaning of a sentence [expressing a belief] is to be defined by reference to the actions to which asserting it would lead’, remains ‘very vague and undeveloped’ (1990a: 51).
		It is, however, developed enough to stop Ramsey’s theory of truth being, as is usually supposed, that truth is definable by the fact that for all p, it is true that p iff p (see Truth, deflationary theories of).
		Ramsey starts by observing that we can‘say that a chicken believes a certain sort of caterpillar to be poisonous, and mean by that merely that it abstains from eating such caterpillars on account of unpleasant experiences connected with them’.
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	Ramsey
		Moreover, Ramsey is a Cambridge man in a sense that can be traced back to Isaac Newton: his precoce independence of thought was fostered by the freedom of academic environment, and the tradition that undergraduate students were stimulated to try their own theories.
		Ramsey came accross Keynes's book Treatise on Probability, and Ramsey simply demolished it (incidentally, some authors consider Ramsey's criticism to Keynes as his first contribution to economics).
		The Ramsey model established the main characteristics of modern dynamic macroeconomics, such as: an optimizer representative agent in an infinite horizon.
	www.geocities.com /fariajocka/Ramsey.html (1445 words)

	INFORMS: Ramsey Award of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS
		Frank Plumpton Ramsey was the first to express an operational theory of decision-making based on the dual, intertwining notions of judgmental probability and utility.
		To Ramsey, probability was an expression of a degree of belief interpreted as operationally meaningful in terms of a willingness to act based on that belief.
		Ramsey died in 1930 at the tragically early age of 26.
	www.informs.org /Prizes/whoisRamsey.html (200 words)

	Frank Ramsey
		Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a big man, big in body, in intellect and in breadth of interests -
		Ramsey studied at Trinity, became a fellow of King's and lectured in mathematics.
		Ramsey was no showman; he was somewhat lazy.
	www.skole-forum.dk /frank_ramsey.htm (672 words)

	About Ramsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frank Ramsey, who first proved Ramsey theory in 1928, was a remarkable man. He grew up in Cambridge, England.
		Ramsey wrote only two papers on mathematical economics, but both are widely quoted in mathematical economics literature.
		Tragically, in 1930, at the age of 26, Ramsey took ill and died of complications from abdominal surgery, at the height of his intellectual powers.
	www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at /proj/ramsey/aboutRamsey.htm (118 words)

	Ramsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frank was the oldest of his parents four children.
		Although Ramsey was a lecturer in mathematics, he produced work in a remarkable range of topics over a short period.
		Ramsey suffered an attack of jaundice and was taken to Guy's Hospital in London for an operation.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /%7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Ramsey.html (1301 words)

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		Frank Plumpton Ramsey was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England on February 22, 1903
		Ramsey begins his paper with his theorem, and he presents a pretty long proof for it.
		A Ramsey number is the smallest integer r=R(G,H), such that for any complete graph on r vertices, such that the edges are arbitrarily colored red and blue, there will be a red G as a subgraph, or there will be a blue H as a subgraph.
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	Frank Ramsey Biography
		Ramsey was a member of a distinguished Cambridge family, in which he was the eldest of two brothers and two sisters.
		Ramsey had first met his future wife, Lettice Baker, when they were both students: he in his first year, she in her third.
		Ramsey then began to lecture for the Mathematics Faculty on the foundations of mathematics, and in 1926 he was made a University Lecturer in Mathematics, the post he held until his death four years later.
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	Frank Ramsey
		Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a big man, big in body, in intellect and in breadth of interests - but small in life-span.
		Ramsey, as a student and young don, impressed G E Moore, the great economist John Maynard Keynes (despite demolishing his theory of probability) and - an unusual achievement here - even the anguished genius, Wittgenstein.
		Ramsey, himself influenced by Russell and Wittgenstein, sought an account of how it is that we can speak of the world - an account which avoided the early Wittgensteinian nonsense of some nonsense being important nonsense.
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	Frank P. Ramsey - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frank P. Ramsey (February 22, 1903 - January 19, 1930) was a British mathematician and logician.
		Ramsey's most celebrated contribution to mathematics is now known as Ramsey Theory, the branch of graph theory and combinatorics that deals with the idea that within a sufficiently large system, however disordered, there must be some order.
		The essay on Ramsey in John Maynard Keynes's "Essays in Biography".
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	IVC Aktuell
		This Ramsey conference is intended to provide not only historical and biographical perspectives on one of the most gifted thinkers of the Twentieth Century, but also new impulses for further research on at least some of the topics pioneered by Ramsey, whose interest and potential are greater than ever.
		There will be a special focus on the one topic which was of strongest mutual concern to Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, namely the question of foundations of mathematics, in particular the status of logicism (the view that mathematics is derivable from logic, where logic is assumed to include a higher-order theory of relations).
		Ramsey was the only important thinker to actually visit Wittgenstein during his school-teaching career in Puchberg and Ottertal in the 1920s, in Lower Austria; and later, Ramsey was instrumental in getting Wittgenstein positions at Cambridge.
	www.univie.ac.at /ivc/aktuell/ramsey.htm (388 words)

	F.P. Ramsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930), Cambridge mathematician and philosopher, was one of the most brilliant people of his generation.
		Ramsey’s highly original papers on the foundations of mathematics, probability, economics, philosophy of science and the theory of knowledge were very influential in the 20th century and are still widely discussed in the 21st.
		Nearly all the aspects of Ramsey’s work are examined: his logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology, pragmatism, economics, and the mutual influences between Ramsey and Wittgenstein.
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	Frank Ramsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ramsey's third contribution was his exercise in determining optimal savings (1928), the famous "optimal growth" model - what has since become known as the "Ramsey model" - one of the earliest applications of the calculus of variations to economics.
		The young Frank Ramsey helped in the translation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's notoriously difficult Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) - Ramsey was also among the first to review it and even served as the great philosopher's thesis supervisor at Cambridge.
		In his tragically short life he produced an extraordinary amount of profound and original work in economics, mathematics and logic as well as in philosophy: work which in all these fields is still extremely influential.
	www.economyprofessor.com /theorists/frankramsey.php (404 words)

	The Frank Ramsey Collection
		Frank Plumpton Ramsey's career was ended abruptly by his untimely death in 1930.
		In this piece Ramsey disposes of the problematic axiom of reducibility and of the difficulties associated with identity and the multiplicative axiom in Russell's Principia.
		Notebooks from Ramsey's student days, however, include essays he wrote on topics in political philosophy and ethics as part of his studies at Cambridge.
	www.library.pitt.edu /libraries/special/asp/ramsey.html (462 words)

	Frank Plumpton Ramsey Biography / Biography of Frank Plumpton Ramsey Literary Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In spite of his short life and consequently abbreviated career, Frank P. Ramsey is a major figure in twentieth-century British philosophy.
		Frank Plumpton Ramsey was born in Cambridge on 22 February 1903 to Arthur Stanley Ramsey, a mathematician and president of Magdalene College of the University of Cambridge, and Agnes Mary Ramsey, née Wilson.
		Ramsey was educated at Winchester, one of England's leading public schools, and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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	The Philosophy of F. P. Ramsey - Cambridge University Press
		Ramsey was a remarkably creative and subtle philosopher who in the briefest of academic careers (he died tragically in 1930 aged 26) made significant contributions to logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language and decision theory.
		This book is the first critical study of Ramsey's work, offering a thorough exposition and interpretation of his ideas, setting the ideas in their historical context, and assessing their significance for contemporary research.
		The study is intended to complement the reissue of Ramsey's papers edited by Professor Hugh Mellor.
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	Ramsey
		Ramsey's aim in this paper, however, was to improve on the Principia Mathematica and he does so in two ways.
		However, as Mellor points out in [8], it is now known that there is a more direct proof than that given by Ramsey, while the general case of the decision problem cannot be solved.
		One would have to say, however, that Ramsey's work in philosophy had been somewhat overshadowed by that of Wittgenstein.
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	Frank P. Ramsey Biography
		In one of his conversations with C. Ogden, he expressed his desire to learn German.
		One of the theorems proved by Ramsey in his 1930 paper On a problem of formal logic, which sparked the growth in this field, now bears his name (see Ramsey's theorem).
		Further Ramsey, a good friend of economist John Maynard Keynes, published A contribution to the theory of taxation and A mathematical theory of saving.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Ramsey_Frank_P.html (457 words)

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