Morton D. Davis

Game Theory

A Nontechnical Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A lucid and penetrating development of game theory that will appeal to the intuition . . . a most valuable contribution."--Douglas R. Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach The foundations of game theory were laid by John von Neumann, who in 1928 proved the basic minimax theorem, and with the 1944 publication of the Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, the field was established. Since then, game theory has become an enormously important discipline because of its novel mathematical properties and its many applications to social, economic, and political problems. Game theory has been used to make investment decisions, pick jurors, commit tanks to battle, allocate business expenses equitably--even to measure a senator's power, among many other uses. In this revised edition of his highly regarded work, Morton Davis begins with an overview of game theory, then discusses the two-person zero-sum game with equilibrium points; the general, two-person zero-sum game; utility theory; the two-person, non-zero-sum game; and the n-person game. >

Produktdetails

• Dover Books on Mathema 1.4tics
• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 136mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780486296722
• ISBN-10: 0486296725
• Artikelnr.: 22368971

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the First Edition by Oskar Morgenstern Author's Introduction Acknowledgments 1. An Overview 2. "The Two
Person, Zero
Sum Game with Equilibrium Points" 3. "The General, Two
Person, Zero
Sum Game" 4. Utility Theory 5. "The Two
Person, Non
Zero
Sum Game" 6. The n
Person Game Bibliography Index