A beautiful math John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature Siegfried, Tom 1950- creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. dcu Washington, D.C Joseph Henry Press c2006 2006 monographic eng
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viii, 264 p. : ill. 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. Tom Siegfried. Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-247) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Game theory QA269 .S574 2006eb 519.3 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10146765 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10146765 CaPaEBR 060411 ebr10146765