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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 instrumental in persuading Wittgenstein that his research in philosophy was incomplete, and to take up residence at Cambridge.
		Frank Ramsey's younger brother, Arthur Michael Ramsey, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1961 to 1974.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_P._Ramsey (783 words)

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	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)

	Frank Ramsey
		Ramsey took this method to be ‘fundamentally sound’, but saw that it suffered from “being insufficiently general, and from being necessarily inexact … partly because of the diminishing marginal utility of money, partly because the person may have a special eagerness or reluctance to bet …” (PP, p.
		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 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.
	www.fil.lu.se /sahlin/ramsey/content.asp (9873 words)

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		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.
		The gracious (if anachronistic) acknowledgement to Ramsey by Piero Sraffa in the preface to his 1960 Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is a testament to the impact of the youthful scholar on those about him.
	www.economyprofessor.com /theorists/frankramsey.php (404 words)

	BookRags: Frank Plumpton Ramsey Biography
		Ramsey was especially enamored of philosophy toward the end of his life and wrote several highly original works on that subject.
		Ramsey was born in Cambridge, England on February 22, 1903.
		However, Ramsey suggested improvements in the work: namely that its authors eliminate the axiom of reducibility (Ramsey called it "certainly not self-evident") and that Russell's theory of types be simplified by treating certain semantic paradoxes as merely linguistic (e.g., the statement "I am lying.").
	www.bookrags.com /biography/frank-plumpton-ramsey-wom (577 words)

	Frank Ramsey
		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.
		Ramsey's gesture was pragmatic - explaining in terms of actions, dispositions to act, causes and effects.
	www.philosophers.co.uk /cafe/phil_aug2003.htm (923 words)

	BookRags: Frank Plumpton Ramsey Biography
		Frank Plumpton Ramsey was born in Cambridge, England, in 1903.
		In his paper, Ramsey was able to solve this problem for a certain specified set of conditions: when the axioms, or generally accepted theories, consist of general laws.
		Keynes wrote that Ramsey possessed the ability to handle "the technical apparatus of our science with the easy grasp of one accustomed to something far more difficult." Ramsey's published work on philosophy was even slimmer than that in logic and economics, consisting of a single important paper on universals.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/frank-plumpton-ramsey-wsd (457 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Ramsey attended a local country school in Burnet County and at age sixteen became his father's partner in his nursery.
		Ramsey, nicknamed "Fruit Tree" from his initials, discovered or originated and introduced several domestic fruit varieties, including the Breck nectarine, the Leona peach, the Haupt berry, the Ramsey fig, a seedless persimmon, and the cluster apricot.
		Ramsey died on December 28, 1932, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/RR/fra26.html (337 words)

	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.
	www.dspace.cam.ac.uk /bitstream/1810/3484/1/Ramsey.html (6427 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.
	members.aol.com /daughtkom/math172/page1.html (988 words)

	Frank Ramsey Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Basketball publications describe Frank Ramsey as a confident, cerebral player who enjoyed pressure-filled situations and always excelled in the clutch.
		Ramsey sank an off-balance 20-foot jump shot in double overtime that enabled Boston to win the NBA title.
		Known as the "Kentucky Colonel," the six-foot-three Ramsey became eligible for the 1953 draft because his senior class had graduated.
	www.hoophall.com /halloffamers/RamseyFrank.htm (423 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Basketball / Celtics / My old Kentucky home
		Nicknamed the "Kentucky Colonel," Frank Ramsey helped revolutionize basketball by becoming the Boston Celtics’ original "sixth man." Perfecting the off-the-bench role, Ramsey played nine seasons (1955-64) with the Celtics and was a key member of seven NBA championship teams.
		In 2003, Ramsey took on a difficult personal battle when he was diagnosed with an illness that was deteriorating his muscles.
		Ramsey is considered one of the University of Kentucky's all-time great basketball players and was a member of the 1951 national championship team and the undefeated team of 1954.
	www.boston.com /sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2004/12/06/my_old_kentucky_home (1020 words)

	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)

	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)

	The Ramsey Exercise
		Ramsey's exercise was explicitly grounded in Benthamite utilitarianism.
		Like Arthur Pigou (1920), Frank Ramsey argued that "society" is composed of everybody in every generation, current and future, and that they all should be given equal weight in the social welfare function.
		This, Ramsey asserted, side-steps the issue of "infinite sums", but, as we shall later, it is actually doubtful that the Ramsey device is foolproof.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/essays/growth/optimal/ramseygr.htm (2001 words)

	Ramsey, Frank Plumpton (1903–30) : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		The British philosopher Frank Plumpton Ramsey graduated in mathematics from Trinity College Cambridge in 1923, became a Fellow of King’s College in 1924 and a University Lecturer in Mathematics in 1926.
		Dropping this axiom is essential to logicism, since ‘there is no reason to suppose [it] true; and if it were true, this would be a happy accident and not a logical necessity, for it is not a tautology’ (1990a: 191) (see Theory of types; Semantic paradoxes and theories of truth).
		The former he attacks for denying that all propositions are either true or false – ‘Brouwer would refuse to agree that either it was raining or it was not raining, unless he had looked to see’ (1990a: 228) – and the latter for reducing mathematics to ‘a meaningless game with marks on paper’ (1990a: 233).
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/DD056SECT1 (489 words)

	Frank Ramsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ramsey, a 6'3'' swingman from Kentucky, played 9 NBA seasons with the Celtics.
		Ramsey perfected the 6th man role and helped the Celtics to 7 NBA championships.
		Ramsey is a member of basketball's Hall of Fame.
	www.dickscourtroom.com /framsey.htm (44 words)

	INFORMS: The Institute For Operations Research and The Management Sciences
		The Frank P. Ramsey Medal is the highest award of the DAS.
		The medal is named in honor of Frank Plumpton Ramsey, a Cambridge University mathematician who was one of the pioneers of decision theory in the 20th century.
		The Ramsey Medalists are recognized for having made substantial further contributions to that theory and its application to important classes of real decision problems.
	www.informs.org /article.php?id=1061 (145 words)

	eBooks.com - Frank Ramsey: Truth and Success eBook
		Despite his tragic death at the age of 26, Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) remains one of the most intriguing minds of the twentieth century.
		In particular, Jérôme Dokic and Pascal Engel are interested in Ramsey's thoughts on truth and belief, and his pragmatic thesis that the truth of one's beliefs guarantees the success of one's actions.
		Frank Ramsey: Truth and Success provides a much-needed introduction to the work of this undervalued thinker, and makes an important and profound contribution to our understanding of Ramsey's work and his place in twentieth century philosophy.
	www.ebooks.com /cj.asp?IID=171359 (460 words)

	Frank Ramsey Centenary Volume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) was the greatest of all the remarkable philosophers working in Cambridge University in the first half of the twentieth century.
		In his short life, besides producing seminal work in philosophy, particularly in logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of mind and language, Ramsey created modern decision theory and new branches of mathematics and economics.
		This volume contains revised versions of papers, given at an international conference held in Newnham College Cambridge in 2003 to commemorate the centenary year of Ramsey's birth, which show the continuing importance and influence of his work in all these fields.
	people.pwf.cam.ac.uk /dhm11/RamseyLegacy.html (97 words)

	Marshall Ramsey: Air Frank
		Marshall Ramsey, 38, is the editorial cartoonist for The Clarion-Ledger.
		It is also rumored that his work has appeared frequently in the bathrooms of several prominent local politicians.
		Ramsey is a 1991 graduate of The University of Tennessee.
	www.clarionledger.com /misc/blogs/mramsey/2006/08/air-frank.html (319 words)

	Frank P. Ramsey - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This impressed him deeply, and in 1923 he travelled to Austria to discuss it with Wittgenstein, who was then working as a teacher in a small village.
		John Maynard Keynes, 1933, "Frank Plumpton Ramsey" in Essays in Biography.
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	www.netipedia.com /index.php/F._P._Ramsey (685 words)

	Janus: The Papers of Frank Plumpton Ramsey
		Frank Plumpton Ramsey was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1920.
		Copyright in the published and unpublished writings of Frank Plumpton Ramsey is held by King's College, Cambridge.
		A collection of Frank Ramsey papers is held in the Special Collections Department of the Library at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
	janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0272/PP/FPR (189 words)

	Psybertron Asks » Frank Ramsey
		Frank Ramsey - Brother of the Archbishop Lord Michael Ramsey and son of A.S Ramsey (Mathematics, Vice-Master Magdelene, Cambs), died in 1930, aged just 26.
		The real question is what it is to believe that Caesar was murdered - as opposed on the one hand to hoping, fearing or having some other attitude to Caesar’s murder, and on the other hand to having a belief about something else.
		Spooky photograph of Ramsey atop Red Pike in the English Lakes - a spot on which I’ve stood myself, possibly even been photographed.
	www.psybertron.org /?p=326 (701 words)

	American Rhetoric: Movie Speech from Crimson Tide - Captain Frank Ramsey Addresses the Crew of the USS Alabama
		Ramsey: We constitute the front line and the last line of defense.
		Ramsey: You're aware of the name of this ship, aren't you, Mr.
		Ramsey: Chief of the boat: Dismiss the crew.
	www.americanrhetoric.com /MovieSpeeches/moviespeechcrimsontide.html (190 words)

	Marshall Ramsey: Adios Frank Whisperer
		Adios to the Frank Whisperer -- former Mayor Dale Danks turned in his notice as the city's outside legal council.
		Guess it was hard to sue the city and represent it at the same time.
		The good news is that he will continue as the Mayor's personal legal counsel.
	www.clarionledger.com /misc/blogs/mramsey/2006/06/adios-frank-whisperer.html (266 words)

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