by Len Fisher | 26 May 2015 | Game Theory & You: Media and Writing, News
26.5.15 I have just written an obituary of John Nash and his wife Alicia for the U.K. Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/25/john-nash It describes Nash’s contributions, not only to game theory, but also to mathematics. Here is the original... 
by Len Fisher | 22 Apr 2015 | Game Theory & You: Media and Writing, Stray Thoughts
Game theory is all around us. Despite its innocuous-sounding name, it is not just a theory, and it deals with far more than traditional games. It is, in fact, about the real-life strategies that we use in our interactions with other people. Originally proposed by John... 
by Len Fisher | 27 Mar 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
The problem that John Nash analyzed concerned situations (all too common in real life) where cooperation would produce the best overall outcome, but where individuals can be tempted by the logic of self-interest to cheat on the cooperation. When both sides cheat,... 
by Len Fisher | 26 Mar 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
John Nash has recently been awarded the prestigious Abel Prize (the “mathematicians Nobel”) at the ripe old age of 90 for “for striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric...