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Laddar... A beautiful math : John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature (urspr publ 2006; utgåvan 2006)av Tom Siegfried
VerksinformationA Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature av Tom SIEGFRIED (2006)
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John Nash won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics for research published in the 1950s on a new branch of mathematics known as game theory. At the time of Nash's early work, game theory was briefly popular among mathematicians and Cold War analysts, but it remained obscure until the 1970s when evolutionary biologists began applying it to their work. In the 1980s economists began to embrace it. Since then it has found an ever-expanding repertoire of applications among a wide range of scientific disciplines. Today neuroscientists peer into game-player's brains, anthropologists play games with people from primitive cultures, biologists use games to explain the evolution of human language, and mathematicians exploit games to better understand social networks. A common thread connecting much of this research is the ancient quest for a science of human social behavior, in the spirit of the fictional science of psychohistory described by the late Isaac Asimov.--From publisher description. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)519.3Natural sciences and mathematics Mathematics Applied Mathematics, Probabilities Game TheoryKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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My favorite takeaway was the hawk-dove game. Pretend there are generic birds that can become hawks or doves. If a hawk meets another hawk where there's food, they fight, and neither gets food. They score 0 and 0. If a hawk meets a dove, the hawk eats and the dove doesn't. They score 2 and 0. And finally, if a dove meets a dove, they both eat, and s ore 1 and 1. The Nash equilibrium given these numbers predicts the generic bird population will settle down at 1/3 hawks, and 2/3 doves.
Another nugget was this: just as molecules of a gas seek their lowest energy levels, people in a society seek their highest utility (the economics term). ( )