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Game Theory

Proved results about strategic decision-making among rational actors. Belongs here: game-theoretic theorems such as existence results for equilibria. Does not belong here: results in probability that do not involve strategic interaction.

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Era Of Emergence
1944 1
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1. Wikipedia: Game Theory
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Game theory as a field had its genesis in the 1944 book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, written by mathematicians John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern.
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