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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
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Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
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A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
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First Sentence
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Page 1
1.
Smith's Hand - Searching for the Code of Nature
Page 11
2.
Von Meumann's Games - Game theory's origins
Page 27
3.
Nash's Equilibrium - Game theory's foundation
Page 51
4.
Smith's Strategies - Evolution, altruism, and cooperation
Page 73
5.
Freud's Dream - Games and the brain
Page 93
6.
Seldon's Solution - Game theory, culture, and human nature
Page 110
7.
Quetelet's Statistics and Maxwell's Molecules - Statistics and society, statistics and physics
Page 126
8.
Bacon's Links - Networks, society, and games
Page 144
9.
Asimov's Vision - Psychohistory, or sociophysics?
Page 164
10.
Meyer's Penny - Quantum fun and games
Page 182
11.
Pascal's Wager - Games, probability, information, and ignorance
Page 197
Epilogue
Page 217
Appendix: Calculating a Nash Equilibrium
Page 225
Notes
Page 233
Index
Page 249
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