博弈论：理解生命的数学

Brian Clegg总是被艾萨克·阿西莫夫的经典系列丛书吸引住，书中用人类心理和行为的复杂数学模型来预测未来。
直到很久以后，他才意识到阿西莫夫的《心理史》有一个真实世界的等价物：博弈论。
博弈论起源于对依赖于随机来源（掷骰子或掷硬币）的概率赌博游戏的研究，很快被应用于人类互动：本质上，无论你在做什么，赢的最佳策略是什么？它的数学技术以不同程度的智慧被应用于经济学、进化论等领域，以及如何赢得核战争等问题。
克莱格深入研究了博弈论丰富多彩的历史和重大发现，展示了我们都可以从这个经常被误解的研究领域学到什么。
Game Theory: Understanding the Mathematics of Life
Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov’s classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour.
Only much later did he realise that Asimov’s ‘psychohistory’ had a real-world equivalent: game theory.
Originating in the study of probabilistic gambling games that depend on a random source – the throw of a dice or the toss of a coin – game theory soon came to be applied to human interactions: essentially, what was the best strategy to win, whatever you were doing? Its mathematical techniques have been applied, with varying degrees of wisdom, to fields such as economics, evolution, and questions such as how to win a nuclear war.
Clegg delves into game theory’s colourful history and significant findings, and shows what we can all learn from this oft-misunderstood field of study.

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