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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... brain 6 Seldon's Solution Game theory, culture, and human nature 7 Quetelet's Statistics and Maxwell's Molecules Statistics and society, statistics and physics 8 Bacon's Links Networks, society, and games 11 27 51 73 93 110 126 144 9 ...
... brains of game-playing people to discover how their strategies reflect different motives and emotions. In fact, a whole new field of study, called neuroeconomics, has taken shape, mixing game theory's methods with brain-scanning ...
... brain. So it's perfectly natural that game theory has become popular today in efforts to understand how the brain works, as brain scientists explore the neural physiology behind economic choices. In turn, the brain underlies all the ...
... brain. Quantum physics itself has been illuminated over the past decade by new insights emerging from quantum information theory. And some theorists have pursued the notion that information ideas hold the key to unifying quantum physics ...
... brain's ability to produce math that captures deep and true aspects of reality, enabling scientists to predict the existence of exotic things like antimatter and black holes before any observer finds them. Part of the solution to that ...
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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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