A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
by Tom Siegfried
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Author: Tom SiegfriedEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-25
ISBN: 0309101921
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
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Book Review: Far-Reaching Theory Now Accessible
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie "A Beautiful Mind" was inspiring and touching. But, it really did not explain Nash's contributions to the world in the form of game theory. Now readers have a chance to understand the theory and practice behind this Nobel Prize winning discovery in Tom Siegfried's book, "A Beautiful Math."
This thorough, historical, mathematical, and metaphorical description of game theory really helps me to see the implications of Nash's discovery. This work influences psychology, evolutionary biology, sociology, anthropology, statistical physics, quantum physics and more. Its far-reaching implications are brought to life within an eloquent explanation that touches on all branches of science.
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Summary of A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
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 1950's 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 1970's when evolutionary biologists began applying it to their work. In the 1980's 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 behaviour, 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.Mathematics Books
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