Azul presents a step up for him in look and feel—the graphics for this game, resembling the mosaic tiles of Moorish ...

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 ...

When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it’s easy to conclude that parents who don’t vaccinate their children are ...

Bitcoin discourages dishonesty through design, making fraud too costly for rational participants to pursue. Game theory underpins miner behavior, rewarding cooperation while filtering out those who ...

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 ...

The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.

Cooperative game theory provides a robust framework for analysing how rational players can form coalitions and fairly distribute joint payoffs. Traditionally, this field has focused on transferable ...

Looking at my bookshelf, I’m stricken with guilt: the collected Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle have been sitting untouched for years. Unfortunately, I never got past the fantastic ...

These fan theories about the Super Mario Bros. franchise bring surprising complexity to the long-running Nintendo series.