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

✍ Scribed by Siegfried, Tom

• Publisher: National Academies Press; Joseph Henry Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 230 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Washington, D.C.
• ISBN-13: 9780309659284

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Subjects

Game theory