A beautiful math: John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature

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Author(s): Siegfried, Tom
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 264
City: Washington, D.C
Tags: Game theory.

Content: 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.