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Fun game theory guide
Len Fisher, an award-winning author of popular science books, has written an entertaining, enlightening and practical guide to the abstruse discipline of game theory. Fisher shows how game theory explains phenomena as mundane as why spoons go missing from a coffee break room, as ingenious as rabbinical problem solving in the Talmud and as fateful as global warming. getAbstract finds that his lively writing invites a wide audience. Fisher engages lay readers by elucidating an intensively mathematical subject without heavy reliance on equations or jargon. His treatment of the subject makes game theory appear only slightly more complicated than child's play. In fact, he often uses children's games to illustrate the role of game theory in daily life.
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TrueBlueDad
Posted June 15, 2009
You should be up for this Game Theory book - Rock, Paper, Scissors
"This book reveals the pervasiveness of game theory in everyday life and does it in an entertaining way. Fisher outlines basics of the "Prisoner's Dilemma", one of the most common game theory principles and other examples like the "Tragedy of the Commons". You will recognize these models once they are explained and begin to see them played out everyday at work or with your family. Questions like what happened to all those spoons in the office kitchen, are answered and a few more significant ones as well. Fans of thought provoking books will find this a worthwhile read. And if you play Rock, Paper, Scissors it gives some hints how to win more often.
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Anonymous
Posted July 5, 2010
Worse book I've ever opened.
I got the book today because my college is making all newcomers read it. I'm on page twenty-five and have never read 25 pages worse than that. It's completely incomprehensible to me, boring, useless, and confusing. It's written in a way that only a genius can understand. I'm already considering putting the book down (in the trash) and transferring schools.
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