A Beautiful Math
John Nash, Game Theory, And the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
by Tom Siegfried
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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 evolutionary biologists began applying it to their work. In the 1980s economists began to embrace it. Since then it has found an ever-expanding repertoire of applications among a wide range of scientific disciplines. Today neuroscientists peer into game-player's brains, anthropologists play games with people from primitive cultures, biologists use games to explain the evolution of human language, and mathematicians exploit games to better understand social networks. A common thread connecting much of this research is the ancient quest for a science of human social behavior, in the spirit of the fictional science of psychohistory described by the late Isaac Asimov.--From publisher description.
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A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
January 2006, Joseph Henry Press
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0309659280 9780309659284
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A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, And the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
October 20, 2006, Joseph Henry Press
Hardcover
in English
0309101921 9780309101929
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Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
2006, National Academies Press
in English
030913580X 9780309135801
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Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
2006, National Academies Press
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