Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by R. Duncan Luce, Howard Raiffa
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Author: Howard Raiffa, R. Duncan LuceEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1989-04-01
ISBN: 0486659437
Number of pages: 509
Publisher: Dover Publications
Book Reviews of Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Book Review: The appendices are the best part
Summary: 5 Stars
I had this book for a number of years before I could appreciate its use. The reading in the main text can be very low yield at times, as he is often simply musing, explaining the implications of certain ideas without much mathematical analysis. This is basically a very long primer on game theory, which ends up often explaining what is intuitively obvious based on his previous expositions.
So why 5 stars? For starters the book is quite comprehensive, but where I found this book really shines is the appendices, which comprise roughly a fourth of the book and are really interesting. They address topics in high yield fashion simply getting to the mathematical methods: A probabilistic theory of utility, The minimax theorem, Geometrical Interpretation of Games, Linear Programming and Games, Methods for solving Games, Recursive Games, and Games of Survival.
A mathematician may not find anything in this book that is new to him other than an explanation of what game theory is and a vocabulary for reading and writing about game theory, but a non-mathematician (like me) will likely find some very interesting topics presented in the appendices.
Summary of Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Superb nontechnical introduction to game theory and related disciplines, primarily as applied to the social sciences. Clear, comprehensive coverage of utility theory, 2-person zero-sum games, 2-person non-zero-sum games, n-person games, individual and group decision-making, much more. Appendixes. Bibliography. Graphs and figures.
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