A Very Short Introduction
Edición de la obra Game Theory
| Autor | K. G. Binmore |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Oxford University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | November 2, 2007 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 184 |
| Formato | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9780199218462 |
| ISBN-10 | 0199218463 |
| OCLC | 181072693 |
| LCCN | 2007046448 |
| Serie | Very Short Introductions |
| Número de Cutter |
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Games are played whenever people interact, wherever there are strategies to adopt and outcomes or prizes to win. And that means games are played everywhere: from economics to evolutionary biology, from prison escapes to online poker, and from romantic liaisons to Cold War stand-offs. Game theory is the study of such games — what happens when they are played rationally, and how we can predict their outcomes. This lively *Very Short Introduction* shows how game theory can be understood without mathematical equations, and how, from one simple premise, there springs a remarkably rich theory that has already had a profound effect on the sciences, and may yet revolutionize disciplines as far apart as psychology, ethics, and politics.