At 11:23 AM 06/18/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>As to whether the fact that unique solutions are available only for
>two-person (and of course 'person' here is not 'individual person')
>games is a weakness or not would depend upon how one simplifies the
>situation to assimilate it to a two-person situation. Such
>simplifications are common enough in physics where the n-body (n>2)
>problem remains unsolved, I believe.
can't physicists deal with cases where n = infinity? After all, economists
using purely formal techniques can handle the case where n = 1 (monopoly)
or n = infinity (mythical perfect competition) and just barely handle n = 2
(duopoly)
.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine/AS
