MA 493B-003 - Game Theory

Mathematics

A good web page devoted to game theory is gametheory.net. It includes, among other things:

Game theory in the popular press, a collection of links to articles about game theory in biology, ethics and religion, psychology, politics, security and terrorism, etc. These articles may give you ideas for paper topics.
A list of books on game theory. Interesting ones include:
- Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff. The best popular introduction to game theory that I know of.
- Games of Strategy by Avinash K. Dixit and Susan Skeath. A freshman-sophomore textbook version of the previous book. Chapter 14 is a quite convincing discussion of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
- Game Theory and Strategy by Philip D. Straffin. A short introduction to game theory. Chapter 24 analyzes the rather bizarre organization of certain Pathan tribes of northwestern Pakistan.
- An Introduction to Game Theory by Martin J. Osborne. A good introductory text at about the level of our course, with lots of examples.
- Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict by Roger B. Myerson. A more advanced text, but careful and clear.
- Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible by Steven J. Brams.
- The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod.
- Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics by Josef Hofbauer and Karl Sigmund.

Last modified Sat Sep 17 2005
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