Chance, Strategy, and Choice An Introduction to the Mathematics of Games and Elections
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Games and elections are fundamental activities in society with applications in economics, political science, and sociology. These topics offer familiar, current, and lively subjects for a course in mathematics. This classroom-tested textbook, primarily intended for a general education course in game theory at the freshman or sophomore level, provides an elementary treatment of games and elections. Starting with basics such as gambling, zero-sum and combinatorial games, Nash equilibria, social dilemmas, and fairness and impossibility theorems for elections, the text then…
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316026786
- Series Cambridge Mathematical Textbooks
- Subjects Economics,Mathematics,Mathematics (general),Microeconomics,Optimisation
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 29 June 2015
- ISBN: 9781107084520
- Dimensions (mm): 253 x 177 mm
- Weight: 1.01kg
- Contains: 60 b/w illus. 243 tables 300 exercises
- Page extent: 352 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 11 May 2018
- ISBN: 9781316026786
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