The History Of Game Theory, Volume 1: From the Beginnings to 1945

by Mary-Ann Dimand, Robert W Dimand

Overview

Game Theory - the formal modelling of conflict and cooperation - first emerged as a recognized field with a publication of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour in 1944. Since then, game-theoretic thinking about choice of strategies and the interdependence of people's actions has influenced all the social s

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134907793
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/08/1996
Series:	Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	835 KB

About the Author

Mary-Ann Dimand, Robert W Dimand

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Defining Game Theory and its History, Chapter 2. Strategic Interdependence: Cournot and Duopoly Chapter, 3. Cournot's Heirs and Asymmetry, Chapter 4. Strategic Interdependence: Bilateral Monopoly, Chapter 5. Lewis Caroll and the Game of Politics, Chapter 6. Early Mathematical Models of Conflict: the Contributions of Lanchester and Richardson, Chapter 7. The Minimax Approach to Noncooperative Strategic Games from Waldegrave to Borel Chapter, 8. From Games of Pure Chance to Strategic Games: French Probabilists and Early Game Theory, Chapter 9. Von Neumann and Morgenstern in Historical Perspective References