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

ISBN-13: 9781138006607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Mary-Ann Dimand; Robert W. Dimand

Opis

In this volume, the history of strategic games - from its origins up to 1945 - is traced through the work of: 19th century economists such as Cournot and Edgeworth, voting theorists - including Lewis Carroll, conflict theorists - Richardson and Lanchester, Probabilists such as Bertrand, Borel and Ville, and later economists - notably Stackelberg and Zeuthen.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Mary-Ann Dimand, Robert W Dimand