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Game changers : stories of the revolutionary minds behind game theory

by Rudolf J. Taschner, Brian Taylor

An accessible history of game theory that traces its development from the seventeenth century to modern global finance and military strategy. It explains how mathematical rules can be used to model human decision-making and analyse complex scenarios.

Accession 12852 ISBN 9781633883741 Publisher Prometheus Books
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