Samuel Bruce Smith

Chance, Strategy, and Choice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Undergraduate textbook primarily intended for a general education course in game theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 932g
• ISBN-13: 9781107084520
• ISBN-10: 1107084520
• Artikelnr.: 42363045

Autorenporträt

Samuel Bruce Smith is Professor and Chair of Mathematics at Saint Joseph's University and a past Director of the University Honors Program. In 2012, he won the Tengelmann Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Games and elections
3. Chance
4. Strategy
5. Choice
6. Strategy and choice
7. Choice and chance
8. Chance and strategy
9. Nash equilibria
10. Proofs and counterexamples
11. Laws of probability
12. Fairness in elections
13. Weighted voting
14. Gambling games
15. Zero-sum games
16. Partial conflict games
17. Take-away games
18. Fairness and impossibility
19. Paradoxes and puzzles in probability
20. Combinatorial games
21. Borda versus Condorcet
22. The Sprague-Grundy theorem
23. Arrow's impossibility theorem.