Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Introduction; 3 1 Smith's Hand--Searching for the Code of Nature; 4 2 Von Neumann's Games--Game theory's origins; 5 3 Nash's Equilibrium--Game theory's foundation; 6 4 Smith's Strategies--Evolution, altruism, and cooperation; 7 5 Freud's Dream--Games and the brain; 8 6 Seldon's Solution--Game theory, culture, and human nature; 9 7 Quetelet's Statistics and Maxwell's Molecules--Statistics and society, statistics and physics; 10 8 Bacon's Links--Networks, society, and games; 11 9 Asimov's Vision--Psychohistory, or sociophysics?; 12 10 Meyer's Penny--Quantum fun and games; 13 11 Pascal's Wager--Games, probability, information, and ignorance; 14 Epilogue; 15 Appendix--Calculating a Nash Equilibrium; 16 Further Reading; 17 Notes; 18 Index

About the Author

Tom Siegfried