Game theory provides ways to understand and predict behavior in situations where participants are driven by goals. Developed by John von Neumann (1903-1959) and Oskar Morgenstern (1902-1977), game theory reveals patterns of advantage for participants...

Humans play games. From the formalized warfare of chess to the Machiavellian machinations of politics to the subtleties of sexual pursuit, interactions between individuals with desires and priorities that are often conflicting and contradictory lies at...

Game theory is a branch of mathematics concerned with the analysis of conflict situations. It involves determining a strategy for a given situation and the costs or benefits realized by using the strategy. First developed in the early twentieth...

Game theory is an application of mathematical reasoning to problems of conflict and collaboration between rational self-interested actors. Developed in the 1940s by Austrian mathematicians von Neumann and Morgenstern, it has been applied to many...

Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that is often used in the context of economics. It studies strategic interactions between agents. In strategic games, agents choose strategies that will maximize their return, given the strategies the other...

Dark and brooding, Game Theory (or song numbers 115 through 127 for you diehards) is a masterfully crafted, sobering wake-up call.After years of dropping interchangeable battle raps and dewy love songs, the Roots reignited flickers of their political fire on their last album, 2004’s The...

A University of Pennsylvania professor was charged Monday with bludgeoning his wife to death in their suburban kitchen after she told friends she was going to divorce him.Rafael Robb, 56, taught economics at the Ivy League school and is an expert in game theory, the...

Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson won the Nobel economics prize Monday for developing a theory that helps explain how sellers and buyers can maximize their gains from a transaction.Hurwicz, 90, is the oldest Nobel winner ever, according to the academy....

Game theory may beat terroristsSecurity officials at Los Angeles Int'l Airport are disposing of routines in a new hope to thwart terrorists. Using a method developed by USC researchers based on game theory, officials will randomize their patrols hoping to throw off potential wrongdoers. Typically,...