The games that we've looked at so far are the simplest case of basic games. In these games, we've got a payoff matrix, and both players can see the whole matrix - the players have equal information, and nothing...
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Posted on May 5, 2008 10:09 AM • 4 Comments •
Last time I wrote about Game Theory, I explained the basic idea of zero sum games. In their simplest form, a game can be described by a payoff matrix,where each dimension of the matrix is the set of strategies...
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Posted on April 25, 2008 12:17 PM • 1 Comments •
In game theory, perhaps the most important category of simple games is something called zero sum games. It's also one of those mathematical things that are widely abused by the clueless - you constantly hear references to the term...
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Posted on March 31, 2008 11:13 AM • 19 Comments •
As an introduction to a mathematical game, and how you can use a little bit of math to form a description of the game that allows you to determine the optimal strategy, I'm going to talk a bit about...
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Posted on March 23, 2008 9:42 PM • 16 Comments •
Lots of people wanted game theory, so game theory it is. The logical first question: what is game theory? Game theory is typical of math. What mathematicians like to do is reduce things to fundamental abstract structures or systems,...
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Posted on March 19, 2008 9:16 PM • 34 Comments •
