Talk:Introduction to Game Theory

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Anyone have an outline for how this book should be organized? --Chuck Hoffmann 13:37, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Game Theory Handbook outline
Rough ideas on what should be here:


 * 1) Introduction
 * 2) What is a game? Definitions and classifications
 * 3) Non-cooperative games
 * 4) Bargaining theory
 * 5) Cooperative games
 * 6) Games in continuous state-spaces and differential games
 * 7) Auctions
 * 8) Mechanism design
 * 9) Appendix: theorems and proofs

Hey Chuck and whoever suggested the outline, I've been waiting here for a while for someone to get working on this book but it doesn't seem to be happening. If I get any spare time I'll try and add some stuff, but I think its probably pointless discussing stuff on the talk page now because no-one seems to be interested in this book anymore due to a lack of interest in writing it.

Stuff moved from duplicate book Game theory
We will first look at the game theory by von Neumann and Morgenstein and then later study multiplayer games, nonzero sum games, games with chance, and finally, combinatorial game theory. - 128.175.112.225

Is it on topic to include items on Combinatorial Game Theory, studying games such as Nim and such like? - Paul

The book should probably have some extensive information on evolutionary game theory. Much has been written by Maynard Smith and others. It seems EGT will be a big part of the future of GT. - 67.162.52.102

Edit war
We seem to have an edit war going on. I was going to use '/' rather than ':' as per WB:NP. - Aya T C 00:50, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Dear god, I'm so sorry mate, having never been in something even near an edit war before (i seem to work on projects no-one else touches) I was a bit confused. Sorry. I think everything's sorted out now as per WB:NP...at least I hope so. Once again, sorry Aya...Serge 00:55, August 12, 2005 (UTC)


 * Nah. My fault. I'm on the RC IRC server at irc://irc.wikimedia.org/#en.wikibooks so I can see every edit pop up as it happens. I shouldn't assume you see the same thing. :-) - Aya T C 01:07, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Ideas
There's loads of content from Wikipedia we could use here. Much of the stuff on Prisoner's dilemma seems too in-depth, so we could shift it to here. - Aya T C 00:54, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, OK, Ii'll see what I can do. Thanks again. - Serge 00:55, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Actually, just had a look at Prisoner's dilemma and apparently it's a feature article over in Wikipedia, so the guys over there think its an excellent article and probably like the "in-depth" nature of it, even though I have to agree with Aya, it probably should be on Wikibooks. I might use it as a basis and expand from it. Serge 00:59, August 12, 2005 (UTC)


 * Don't be afraid to fork the content. This is now allowed as per About. - Aya T C 01:08, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Nuclear war as an example?
As I noticed in the article on MAD, Nuclear war could be used as an example of a Nash Equilibrium in game theory. If you think it's a good idea, let me know and I'll try and work it in. Lithran 13:15, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. I've added it to the contents page.  Should be an interesting addition to the book.  --AdRiley 15:20, 15 May 2007 (UTC)