The World the Game Theorists Made
- Contents
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Chapter 2. Acts of Mathematical Creation
Chapter 3. From “Military Worth” to Mathematical Programming
Chapter 4. Game Theory and Practice in the Postwar Human Sciences
Chapter 5. The Brain and the Bomb
Chapter 6. Game Theory without Rationality
Chapter 7. Dreams of a Final Theory
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
"In this deeply researched and readable book, historian Erickson chronicles the passage of game theory from mathematical economics to arms-control theory to evolutionary biology, and back to economics. Until now, there has been remarkably little written about the history of game theory since its creation in 1944...Erickson brings a distinctive voice to the material. The book will edify and surprise even specialists, let alone the rest of us, who have to live in a world created by game theorists whether or not we can articulate the pay-offs in the matrix."
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