Named after states whose name a theorem actually carries, which is not always the person who proved it. Wikipedia notes the proposition "was first stated as a theorem by Pierre de Fermat around 1637 in the margin of a copy of Arithmetica," 358 years before anyone could prove it. This dimension separates a theorem's namesake from whoever eventually supplied the proof.
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1. Wikipedia: Game Theory
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Game theory as a field had its genesis in the 1944 book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, written by mathematicians John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern.
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