Nash equilibrium lies at the heart of game theory, representing a condition in which every participant chooses a strategy that optimises their individual outcome given the strategies of the others.

The concept of Nash equilibrium has long served as a cornerstone in game theory, characterising a state where no player can benefit by changing their strategy unilaterally. Recent advancements have ...

What does it mean to behave rationally? This question sounds like a problem for philosophers. Yet mathematicians also have something to say about it. In the last few decades, game theory—the ...

Lucye Rafferty/The Hoya Professor Ariel Rubinstein discusses game theory yesterday in ICC Auditorium. Here’s a problem: you have to share $100 with someone that you don’t know. You must offer to split ...

Economic Theory, Vol. 26, No. 2, Rationality and Equilibrium: A Symposium in Honor of Marcel K. Richter (Aug., 2005), pp. 301-308 (8 pages) In this paper I study a class of two-player games, in which ...

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Morra is a competitive hand-and-finger game played between two opponents. It begins like Rock-Paper-Scissors, with both players concealing their hands. At a prearranged signal, both players ...

In a recent artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning breakthrough in game theory, researchers solve a persistent problem with real-world applicability—for the better. At last month’s 34th ...