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unusual facts about Game Theory


Game theory

One of the main gameplay decision-making mechanics of the video game Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward is based on game theory.


Alan Grafen

He has worked extensively in the field of Biological game theory, and, in 1990, devised a model showing that Zahavi's well-known Handicap principle could theoretically exist in natural populations.

Alternate Learning

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In 1990, the final CD released by Game Theory included newly recorded material by former Alternate Learning members Scott Miller, Jozef Becker, and Nancy Becker, along with Michael Quercio.

Jazzyfatnastees

In addition to recording their own albums, they have toured with and sung background vocals for The Roots (Illadelph Halflife, Things Fall Apart; Martinez appeared on Game Theory).

Mitch Easter

As a producer, he is probably best known for his work with R.E.M. from 1981 through 1984, though he has also worked with many other acts including Ben Folds Five, Pylon, Helium, Pavement, Suzanne Vega, Game Theory, Marshall Crenshaw, The Connells, Velvet Crush, Ken Stringfellow (of The Posies), and Birds of Avalon.

Psychological pricing

Kaushik Basu used game theory in 1997 to argue that rational consumers value their own time and effort at calculation.

Reinsurance

Using game-theoretic modeling, Professors Michael R. Powers (Temple University) and Martin Shubik (Yale University) have argued that the number of active reinsurers in a given national market should be approximately equal to the square-root of the number of primary insurers active in the same market.

Sysjail

sysjail was developed and released in 2006 by Kristaps Dzonsons (aka Johnson), a research assistant in Game theory at the Stockholm School of Economics, and Maikls Deksters.


see also

Bilevel optimization

Bilevel optimization was first realized in the field of game theory by a German economist Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg who published Market Structure and Equilibrium (Marktform und Gleichgewicht) in 1934 that described this hierarchical problem.

Charles Herold

He wrote the "Game Theory" video game review column for the New York Times from 2000 to 2008, when he left the Times to become the Wii Games Guide at About.com.

Jeffrey Satinover

Satinover's current scientific research, with Didier Sornette of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, centers on studies of game theory and in particular the minority game, attending to the "illusion of control" in these games.

John Geanakoplos

Geanakoplos' papers in the 1980s with Paul Klemperer and Jeremy Bulow developed the concept and invented the terminology of Strategic Complements that is now commonly used in game theory, industrial organization and elsewhere.

Shafted

Liar Game, Japanese manga about a game show with games based in game theory.

Tit for tat

Evolutionary game theory, derived from the mathematical theories formalised by von Neumann and Morgenstern (1953), was first devised by Maynard Smith (1972) and explored further in bird behaviour by Robert Hinde.

William Poundstone

Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb (1992)