Games theory
Supervisor: Tony Roberts
Description: Zero-sum games: the game matrix, pure strategies, mixed strategies, symmetry, dominance, multiplicity, iteration. Nash equilibrium and applications to economics. Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium. Other topics.
Prerequisites: Some linear programming
Main text: J. D. Williams, {The compleat strategyst}; M. J. Osborne, {An introduction to game theory}, Oxford University Press, 2002; M. J. Osborne and A. Rubinstein, {A course in games theory}, MIT Press, 1994.
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