The concept of Nash equilibrium has long served as a cornerstone in game theory, characterising a state where no player can benefit by changing their strategy unilaterally. Recent advancements have ...

Lucye Rafferty/The Hoya Professor Ariel Rubinstein discusses game theory yesterday in ICC Auditorium. Here’s a problem: you have to share $100 with someone that you don’t know. You must offer to split ...

John F. Nash Jr. is widely known as the subject of the Oscar-winning film “A Beautiful Mind,” but his contributions to the advancement of human knowledge are far greater. Nash paved the way for game ...

In a recent artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning breakthrough in game theory, researchers solve a persistent problem with real-world applicability—for the better. At last month’s 34th ...

Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. and his wife Alicia were killed in a New Jersey car crash this weekend. He was 86 and she was 82. The car crash occurred on the New Jersey ...

R.A. Dickey of the Toronto Blue Jays in action against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on Friday. Of all the strategic elements of baseball, few are more fascinating than the poker game between ...

Ever wonder how nodes are incentivized in a blockchain to ensure trust, consensus and cooperation in a system with no central authority? The answer lies in game theory, the mathematical study of ...

Our November Insights puzzle set out three scenarios exploring how competition and cooperation are modeled in game theory and how they might actually interact in modifying the equilibrium between two ...