Prisoner's dilemma
John von Neumann invented the digital computer, played a key role in the development of the atom bomb, constructed a branch of mathematics known as game theory, and became a defender of a movement to bomb the Russians before they could bomb us. Now comes a biography of this controversial genius and an exploration of his greatest idea--one that nearly triggered a nuclear war in 1950
Print Book, English, 1993
1st Anchor books ed View all formats and editions
Anchor Books, New York, 1993
Nonfiction
xi, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780385415804, 038541580X
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Dilemmas
John von Neumann
Game theory
The bomb
The Rand Corporation
Prisoner's dilemma
1950
Game theory and its discontents
Von Neumann's last years
Chicken and the Cuban missile crisis
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