A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature

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A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature

Contents

		Introduction		1
1		Smith’s Hand Searching for the Code of Nature		11
2		Von Neumann’s Games Game theory’s origins		27
3		Nash’s Equilibrium Game theory’s foundation		51
4		Smith’s Strategies Evolution, altruism, and cooperation		73
5		Freud’s Dream Games and the brain		93
6		Seldon’s Solution Game theory, culture, and human nature		110
7		Quetelet’s Statistics and Maxwell’s Molecules Statistics and society, statistics and physics		126
8		Bacon’s Links Networks, society, and games		144

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Front Matter (R1-R8)

Introduction (1-10)

1 Smith’s Hand--Searching for the Code of Nature (11-26)

2 Von Neumann’s Games--Game theory’s origins (27-50)

3 Nash’s Equilibrium--Game theory’s foundation (51-72)

4 Smith’s Strategies--Evolution, altruism, and cooperation (73-92)

5 Freud’s Dream--Games and the brain (93-109)

6 Seldon’s Solution--Game theory, culture, and human nature (110-125)

7 Quetelet’s Statistics and Maxwell’s Molecules--Statistics and society, statistics and physics (126-143)

8 Bacon’s Links--Networks, society, and games (144-163)

9 Asimov’s Vision--Psychohistory, or sociophysics? (164-181)

10 Meyer’s Penny--Quantum fun and games (182-196)

11 Pascal’s Wager--Games, probability, information, and ignorance (197-216)

Epilogue (217-224)

Appendix--Calculating a Nash Equilibrium (225-229)

Further Reading (230-232)

Notes (233-248)

Index (249-264)