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Rock, paper, scissors: game theory in everyday life

By Len Fisher

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2008
ISBN
0465009387, 9780465009381, 9780786726936
LCC
QA269 .F49 2008
Open Library ID
OL16910683M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
931 kB (953503 bytes)
Pages
278\278
Time added
2009-08-06 05:14:26

Description

Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution of cooperation in nature, and investigates how we might apply those lessons to our own society. In a series of experiments that take him from the polite confines of an English dinner party to crowded supermarkets, congested Indian roads, and the wilds of outback Australia, not to mention baseball strategies and the intricacies of quantum mechanics, Fisher sheds light on the problem of global cooperation. The outcomes are sometimes hilarious, sometimes alarming, but always revealing. A witty romp through a serious science, Rock, Paper, Scissors will both teach and delight anyone interested in what it what it takes to get people to work together.

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