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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Siegfried, Tom, 1950-

A beautiful math : John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature / Tom Siegfried. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-309-10192-1 (hardback) — ISBN 0-309-65928-0 (pdfs) 1. Game theory. I. Title.

QA269.S574 2006

519.3—dc22

2006012394