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by Stanley M. Davis

Author:	Stanley M. Davis
Subcategory:	Mathematics
Language:	English
Publisher:	Basic Books; Revised, Subsequent edition (October 5, 1983)
Pages:	271 pages
Category:	Math and Science
Rating:	4.6
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Series: Harper Colophon Books (Book 5107). Hardcover: 271 pages. in Game Theory (Books).

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Every book of game theory starts with Game theory is very relevant to everything that you can imagine, and probably many things that you can’t imagine. In my opinion that’s just a marketing device. I believe that intellectual thinking – philosophy or logic or game theory – is very useful in the cultural sense. It’s part of the culture, it’s a part of our perpetual attempt to understand ourselves better and understand the way that we think. What I’m opposing is the approach that says, in a practical situation, OK, there are some very clever game theoreticians in the world, let’s ask them what to do.

Game theory has been used to make investment decisions, pick jurors, commit tanks to battle, allocate business expenses equitably - even to measure a senator's power, among many other uses.

Game Theory - Morton D. Dover books on mathematics. The reader of this book will be impressed by the immense complexity of the social world and see for himself how complicated ultimately a theory will be that explains it-a theory compared to which even the present-day difficult theories in the physical sciences will pale.

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Obedience to Authority. New York: Harper Colophon, 1974. Davis, Stanley M. Future Perfect. The Hidden Games of Organizations. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. Addison-Wesley, 1987.

Since then, game theory has become an enormously important discipline because of its novel mathematical .

Since then, game theory has become an enormously important discipline because of its novel mathematical properties and its many applications to social, economic, and political problems. Game theory has been used to make investment decisions, pick jurors, commit tanks to battle, allocate business expenses equitably - even to measure a senator's power, among many other uses.

Describes the basic principles of game theory in which behavior and interactions in the real world are analyzed and predicted in terms of mathematical or theoretical models and matrices

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Jonariara

This is my "Goldilocks/Babybear" game theory book. Not too hard, not to soft, just right.

Without calculus, Davis provides a complete introduction to an arcane but useful mathematical discipline. The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy by Williams was too soft. It used the simplest possible methods to address the concepts being discussed, and barely acknowledged some of the most interesting topics in game theory. Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey by Luce and Raiffa was good, up until you hit the calculus (pretty quickly in each chapter), after which I have no basis to form an opinion.

Davis hits all the important concepts of game theory without resorting to sigma notation or even more occult symbols (unlike Luce and Raiffa). He does, however, require a fairly solid understanding of algebra, (unlike Williams). With this fairly humble prerequisite knowledge, Davis takes the non-mathematician where he or she needs to go, and provides a fairly complete level of understanding.

I would recommend this one as a perfect sequel to Williams, should the reader not be challenged, or as a stand-alone for the marginally mathematically literate (such as myself) who need a practical understanding of mathematically grounded decision making.

E. M. Van Court

Elildelm

Well, as this book's title suggests, it is a fairly "nontechnical" introduction to game theory, which normally includes lots of math. I'm not a mathematical person and I didn't know how much of it usually is in game theory when I signed up for my (elective) Thomas Edison State College course "Games People Play." It included recorded lectures as the primary teaching, so this book was supplemental. Thankfully the course wasn't too mathematical either, and neither was this book. It does have good explanations of interesting situations in game theory. It has problems at the beginning of each chapter, and then explains the concepts that help solve them; solutions are included. If this is your first introduction to game theory, or if you're not enthusiastic about math, you might need to go to the Internet for extra help in understanding concepts (I did), but it is a good book.

Meri

The book is very well written, and surprisingly easy to read, considering how dry the subject matter can be at times. Gives a very nice introduction to the topic, and finishes off with a more formal discussion of some advanced topics.

If you are a mathematician, this book is probably excruciatingly easy for you, and probably has little academic value. But, if you are a layman, with an interest in systems and games, it really gives you a lot to think about, and a new way to think about it. It introduces a method of determining possible outcomes, as well as giving a nice overview of more sophisticated concepts, should you decide to explore the topic more fully.

Each chapter begins with some questions to consider while reading, and detailed answers to help at the back of each chapter. The only real issue I found with the book is that the questions are missing from chapter one, yet the answers are there. Odd.

salivan

This book delivers on it's promise. It is a nontechnical introduction to game theory and because of it, I think I understand more about what game theory is and what it can do. I was only really able to understand the first level of games, the "two person zero-sum" games. I was more or less lost in the later chapters covering the more complex games, though. But then I only really wanted to know more about the basics of the theory than to master it, so the book served it's purpose.

Mysterious Wrench

Part of the deficiency of macroeconomics is that most of the models assume that "Man" is a rational actor. These models break down when man decides to act in ways that are observably irrational but have some sort of inner coherence.

Part of the project to explain the gulf between the rational and the real has been the development of Game Theory in the last half century. The book here, a Dover edition of the nontechnical aspects of the theory, is a fantastic and economical find. Each chapter walks you through the basics of understanding how people react in "Games" with other people. It builds from simple thought exercises with clear answers between two actors to situations between near-infinite numbers of actors with ambiguous outcomes.

Although labeled "Nontechnical," I would assume a bit of background is needed to fully realize the usefulness of this text. I think it is non-technical because it lacks the mathematical justification behind the "answers" to the problems and instead relies on a narrative track to explain the consequences of the models built in the theory.

The biggest take-away here is this: be selfish. Humans act far from rationally, especially if there are no consequences from a chance encounter with a stranger.

Helo

it really interesting book and a really interesting topic. The author does a good job of building up to the more complex aspects of the theory. What I wish was there were more of a summary of the salient points at various parts of the book. It is a bit difficult to do that in the kindle. but still fascinating.

Drelajurus

A very well written book which I have not yet finished but the first six chapters are excellent. Chapter 2 is a must.

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