gwnn Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 Can anyone find a picture of J.W. Cobb? He's supposed to be some famous mathematician who helped Economics. Apparently there's some sort of big prize up for grabs for anyone who finds one. Not for me, it's for a girl I know. Maybe he's not an actual person. Supposedly he's very well known, but wikipedia doesn't really have him. Maybe she gave me the wrong name... ugh. I'd like to help her... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfay Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 Ah... the old J.W. Cobb trick. This girl's playing hard to get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 I think you mean Charles Cobb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb-Douglas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 Maybe this is him: http://www.math.harvard.edu/archive/21a_su...ndouts/cobb.pdf Oops - just read the text - that's Douglas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted April 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 Yes that's surely him, Charles Cobb then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echognome Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 Certainly the only Cobb I ever heard of in Economics is the one cited above. The Cobb-Douglas production function is commonly used as a simplified model of production. There have certainly been many mathematicians that have helped expand the field of economics both directly (e.g. John Nash) and indirectly (e.g. Kakutani with his fixed point theorem). However, I suspect that either you got the name wrong or, more likely, this is a ruse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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