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A beautiful math : John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature /
John Nash won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics for research published in the 1950s on a new branch of mathematics known as game theory. At the time of Nash's early work, game theory was briefly popular among mathematicians and Cold War analysts, but it remained obscure until the 1970s when evo...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Joseph Henry Press,
©2006.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
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.