A beautiful math: John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature
Description
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.
Subjects
Subjects
More Details
ISBN:
9780309659284
9780309101929
9780309101929
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | c1da82fe-d364-f7f9-a448-afb975e5e622 |
---|---|
Grouping Title | beautiful math john nash game theory and the modern quest for a code of nature |
Grouping Author | tom siegfried |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-04-27 15:42:23PM |
Last Indexed | 2024-04-27 22:38:27PM |
Solr Fields
accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
author
Siegfried, Tom, 1950-
author_display
Siegfried, Tom
display_description
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.
format_category_eh
Books
format_eh
Book
id
c1da82fe-d364-f7f9-a448-afb975e5e622
isbn
9780309101929
9780309659284
9780309659284
itype_eh
ADULT BOOK
LEAP 28 Day Book
LEAP 28 Day Book
last_indexed
2024-04-28T04:38:27.795Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Non Fiction
literary_form_full
Non Fiction
primary_isbn
9780309659284
publishDate
2006
publisher
Joseph Henry Press
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
Game theory
title_display
A beautiful math : John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature
title_full
A beautiful math : John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature / Tom Siegfried
title_short
A beautiful math
title_sub
John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature
topic_facet
Game theory
Solr Details Tables
item_details
Bib Id | Item Id | Shelf Loc | Call Num | Format | Format Category | Num Copies | Is Order Item | Is eContent | eContent Source | eContent URL | Detailed Status | Last Checkin | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ils:.b16775284 | .i42288010 | West Haven Main Adult Non-fiction | 519.3 SIE | 1 | false | false | Missing | wman | |||||
ils:.b16775284 | .i28912937 | East Lyme Public Adult Non-Fiction | 519.3 Siegfried | 1 | false | false | Billed | elan | |||||
ils:.b16775284 | .i28540475 | Guilford Adult Non-Fiction | 519 S | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | guan |
record_details
Bib Id | Format | Format Category | Edition | Language | Publisher | Publication Date | Physical Description | Abridged |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ils:.b16775284 | Book | Books | English | Joseph Henry Press | c2006 | viii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
scoping_details_eh
Bib Id | Item Id | Grouped Status | Status | Locally Owned | Available | Holdable | Bookable | In Library Use Only | Library Owned | Holdable PTypes | Bookable PTypes | Local Url |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ils:.b16775284 | .i42288010 | Currently Unavailable | Missing | false | false | false | false | false | false | |||
ils:.b16775284 | .i28912937 | Currently Unavailable | Billed | false | false | true | false | false | false | 9999 | ||
ils:.b16775284 | .i28540475 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | false | 9999 |