A beautiful math John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature 0309101921, 0309659280, 9780309101929
Millions have seen the movie and thousands have read the book but few have fully appreciated the mathematics developed b
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English Pages 264 Year 2006
Table of contents :
Smith's Hand Searching for the Code of Nature --
von Neumann's Games Game theory's origins --
Nash's Equilibrium Game theory's foundation --
Smith's Strategies Evolution, altruism, and cooperation --
Freud's Dream Games and the brain --
Seldon's Solution Game theory, culture, and human nature --
Quetelet's Statistics and Maxwell's Molecules Statistics and society, statistics and physics --
Bacon's Links Networks, society, and games --
Asimov's Vision Psychohistory, or sociophysics? --
Meyer's Penny Quantum fun and games --
Pascal's Wager Games, probability, information, and ignorance.
Smith's Hand Searching for the Code of Nature --
von Neumann's Games Game theory's origins --
Nash's Equilibrium Game theory's foundation --
Smith's Strategies Evolution, altruism, and cooperation --
Freud's Dream Games and the brain --
Seldon's Solution Game theory, culture, and human nature --
Quetelet's Statistics and Maxwell's Molecules Statistics and society, statistics and physics --
Bacon's Links Networks, society, and games --
Asimov's Vision Psychohistory, or sociophysics? --
Meyer's Penny Quantum fun and games --
Pascal's Wager Games, probability, information, and ignorance.
