A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of NatureNational Academies Press, 21/09/2006 - 272 páginas Millions have seen the movie and thousands have read the book but few have fully appreciated the mathematics developed by John Nash's beautiful mind. Today Nash's beautiful math has become a universal language for research in the social sciences and has infiltrated the realms of evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and even quantum physics. John Nash won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics for pioneering 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 some 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 game theory. Since then it has found an ever expanding repertoire of applications among a wide range of scientific disciplines. Today neuroscientists peer into game players' 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 its relevance to the ancient quest for a science of human social behavior, or a Code of Nature, in the spirit of the fictional science of psychohistory described in the famous Foundation novels by the late Isaac Asimov. In A Beautiful Math, acclaimed science writer Tom Siegfried describes how game theory links the life sciences, social sciences, and physical sciences in a way that may bring Asimov's dream closer to reality. |
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... applied to economics, game theory has now infiltrated nearly every field of modern science, especially those concerned with human nature and behavior. It has begun to establish links with the physical sciences as well, and ultimately, I ...
... applied in a vast range of other scientific disciplines, with special attention to those arenas where game theory illuminates human nature and behavior (and where it connects with other fields seeking similar insights). I view these ...
... applied them to the study of physical nature, in the eighteenth century it was the turn of the laws of physical nature to suggest ways forward for knowledge about human life. —Roger Smith, The Norton History of the Human Sciences Colin ...
... applied to the battle for survival in the biological arena. And the benefits of the division of labor among workers ... applying economic game theory to the study of evolution is a major intellectual industry. LOGIC AND MORALS All in all ...
... applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour,” Smith pronounced at the beginning of Chapter 1.4 Modern caricatures of Wealth of Nations do not do it justice. It is usually summed up with a reference to the “invisible ...
Índice
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3 Nashs EquilibriumGame theorys foundation | 51 |
4 Smiths StrategiesEvolution altruism and cooperation | 73 |
5 Freuds DreamGames and the brain | 93 |
6 Seldons SolutionGame theory culture and human nature | 110 |
7 Quetelets Statistics and Maxwells MoleculesStatistics and society statistics and physics | 126 |
9 Asimovs VisionPsychohistory or sociophysics? | 164 |
10 Meyers PennyQuantum fun and games | 182 |
11 Pascals WagerGames probability information and ignorance | 197 |
Epilogue | 217 |
AppendixCalculating a Nash Equilibrium | 225 |
Further Reading | 230 |
Notes | 233 |
Index | 249 |
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