The American mathematician John Nash, who died in a taxi accident at the weekend, is probably best known to the wider public through Russell Crowe's portrayal of him in the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind ...
What does it mean to behave rationally? This question sounds like a problem for philosophers. Yet mathematicians also have something to say about it. In the last few decades, game theory—the ...
Game theory is now part of almost every economist's tool-kit, as this week's Nobel economics prize recognises IT SOUNDS like a sports fan's dream. In Stockholm on October 11th, three men shared a $1m ...
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