The Theory of Games

Richard Ernest Bellman

ResearchPublished 1957

A discourse on the fundamental ideas of the theory of games and on the unresolved aspects of the theory. In particular, the author discusses coin-matching, saddle-points, general two-choice games, general finite games, computational algorithms, continuous games, nonzero-sum games, n-person games, poker, and games of survival.

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