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#1 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2008-April-10, 14:16

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...
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Posted 2008-April-10, 14:20

Ah... the old J.W. Cobb trick. This girl's playing hard to get.
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Posted 2008-April-10, 14:37

I think you mean Charles Cobb:

http://en.wikipedia....ki/Cobb-Douglas
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Posted 2008-April-10, 14:39

Maybe this is him:

http://www.math.harvard.edu/archive/21a_su...ndouts/cobb.pdf

Oops - just read the text - that's Douglas.
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Posted 2008-April-10, 14:54

Yes that's surely him, Charles Cobb then.
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Posted 2008-April-10, 14:57

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.
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