game theory

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Discusses how game theory reveals various aspects of social behavior, with an analysis of how social norms and peoples' sense of fair play can create cooperative--rather than competitive--solutions to problems, and shows how mathematics applies to daily dilemmas.

Presents a concise introduction to game theory.

An introduction to statistical decision theory intended for first-year graduate students in statistics, which explains how to evaluate statistical procedures by seeing decision theory as a form of game theory.

Economists have continued to increase our understanding of the principles of the world's economic systems. Engaging profiles of the most notable contributors to economic thought are provided and the impact they continue to have throughout the world today is examined.

Examines gambling from mathematical, historical, and psychological perspectives, discussing common myths about luck, the psychological aspects of winning and loosing, archaeological evidence of dice games played among Neolithic peoples, and related topics.

Examines the theory of emergence--the concept that much comes from little, as in the process through which a seed becomes a tree--and discusses its implications for science, business, and the arts.

Examines Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's game theory and the ways it has shaped evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and quantum physics, linking the three sciences in a way that could lead to a science of human social behavior, or "Code of Nature.".