7/16/2008 - John Nash. Roger Myerson. Robert Aumann. Eric Maskin. Just some of the quantitative luminaries on hand for the Game Theory Society’s Third World Congress, hosted by the Kellogg School from ...

Last week, Vladimir Putin vowed to make new nuclear weapons and consider placing them close to NATO countries. Meanwhile, here in the US, the... The game theory that led to nuclear standoffs Last week ...

The United States throwing its weight behind Bitcoin would effect a massive shift in the game theory underpinning Bitcoin, but probably not in the way you think. Bitcoin’s decentralized consensus ...

Ever wonder how nodes are incentivized in a blockchain to ensure trust, consensus and cooperation in a system with no central authority? The answer lies in game theory, the mathematical study of ...

Playing with Reality: How Games Shape Our World. By Kelly Clancy. Riverhead Books; 368 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25 In 1824 Prince Wilhelm of Prussia asked for a demonstration of an elaborate game he ...

Quantum game theory represents an emerging interdisciplinary field that extends the classical paradigms of game theory into the quantum domain. By utilising principles of quantum mechanics—such as ...