Sampo Syreeni said: | >* "game theory." We all know that most human and complex system | >interactions have strong game-theoretic aspects. | Cooperation, defection, | >Prisoner's Dilemma, Axelrod, etc. But thinking that "all crypto is | >basically game theory" has not been fruitful, so far. | | Axelrod? I just started reading up on basic game theory and | the theory of | oligopoly (Cournot, Nash, price vs. quantity selection, the | works), but | haven't bumped into that name, yet. What gives?
Robert Axelrod did a popular/layman's study of the iterated prisoner's dilemna, and how it relates to evolution, called The Evolution of Cooperation (ISBN: 0465021212 in paperback), that I liked a lot. He's done a few other books as well, but I haven't read them, so I can't comment on his works in general. Kurt
