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Robert Aumann's groundbreaking career in game theory has spanned over 35years. These two volumes provide convenient access to all of his majorresearch--from his doctoral dissertation in 1956 to papers as recent as January1995. Threaded through all of Aumann's work (symbolized in his thesis on knots) isthe study of relationships between different ideas, between different phenomena, andbetween ideas and phenomena. "When you look closely at one scientific idea," writesAumann, "you find it hitched to all others. It is these hitches that I have tried tostudy."The papers are organized in several... more Robert Aumann's groundbreaking career in game theory has spanned over 35years. These two volumes provide convenient access to all of his majorresearch--from his doctoral dissertation in 1956 to papers as recent as January1995. Threaded through all of Aumann's work (symbolized in his thesis on knots) isthe study of relationships between different ideas, between different phenomena, andbetween ideas and phenomena. "When you look closely at one scientific idea," writesAumann, "you find it hitched to all others. It is these hitches that I have tried tostudy."The papers are organized in several categories: general, knot theory, decision theory (utility and subjective probability), strategic games, coalitionalgames, and mathematical methods. Aumann has written an introduction to each of thesegroups that briefly describes the content and background of each paper, includingthe motivation and the research process, and relates it to other work in thecollection and to work by others. There is also a citation index that allows readersto trace the considerable body of literature which cites Aumann's ownwork. less 
Ariel RubinsteinAumann has the ability to use sophisticated mathematical tools more than almost all other game theorists. But he always tries to think in examples. (Source)
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Superb non-technical introduction to game theory, primarily applied to social sciences. Clear, comprehensive coverage of utility theory, 2-person zero-sum games, 2-person non-zero-sum games, n-person games, individual and group decision-making, more. Bibliography. more Superb non-technical introduction to game theory, primarily applied to social sciences. Clear, comprehensive coverage of utility theory, 2-person zero-sum games, 2-person non-zero-sum games, n-person games, individual and group decision-making, more. Bibliography. less Ariel RubinsteinLuce and Raiffa were thinking about elements of what we would probably now call modern choice theory. It’s written beautifully. (Source)
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John von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern, et al. | 4.34
This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. In it, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern conceived a groundbreaking mathematical theory of economic and social organization, based on a theory of games of strategy. Not only would this revolutionize economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has... more This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. In it, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern conceived a groundbreaking mathematical theory of economic and social organization, based on a theory of games of strategy. Not only would this revolutionize economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations. And it is today established throughout both the social sciences and a wide range of other sciences.
This sixtieth anniversary edition includes not only the original text but also an introduction by Harold Kuhn, an afterword by Ariel Rubinstein, and reviews and articles on the book that appeared at the time of its original publication in the New York Times, tthe American Economic Review, and a variety of other publications. Together, these writings provide readers a matchless opportunity to more fully appreciate a work whose influence will yet resound for generations to come. less Ariel RubinsteinThis was the first comprehensive attempt to put many game theoretical ideas together. They set up the style, the concepts and the level of abstraction. (Source)
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Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound—such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in... more Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound—such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up—only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.
Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). less Ariel RubinsteinThe story of John Nash is really a human story – I don’t think it sheds much light on game theory. But it gives hope to people dealing with this disease. (Source)
Diane CoyleThis is a terrific book for just saying something about what game theory helps to do, without plunging you into all the complicated mathematics of how to do it in practice. (Source)
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