Biography:List of game theorists
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This is a list of notable biologists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, and computer scientists whose work has added substantially to the field of game theory.
A
- Derek Abbott – quantum game theory and Parrondo's games
- Susanne Albers – algorithmic game theory and algorithm analysis
- Kenneth Arrow – voting theory (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1972)
- Robert Aumann – equilibrium theory (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005)
- Robert Axelrod – repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
B
- Tamer Başar – dynamic game theory and application robust control of systems with uncertainty
- Cristina Bicchieri – epistemology of game theory
- Olga Bondareva – Bondareva–Shapley theorem
- Steven Brams – cake cutting, fair division, theory of moves
C
- Jennifer Tour Chayes – algorithmic game theory and auction algorithms
- John Horton Conway – combinatorial game theory
- Antoine Augustin Cournot – monopoly and oligopoly games
F
- Drew Fudenberg – repeated games and reputation effects
H
- W.D. Hamilton – evolutionary game theory[1]
- John Harsanyi – equilibrium theory (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994)
- Monika Henzinger – algorithmic game theory and information retrieval
- John Hicks – general equilibrium theory (including Kaldor–Hicks efficiency)
- Naira Hovakimyan – differential games and adaptive control
- Peter L. Hurd – evolution of aggressive behavior
I
K
- Ehud Kalai – Kalai–Smorodinsky bargaining solution, rational learning, strategic complexity
- Anna Karlin – algorithmic game theory and online algorithms
- Michael Kearns – algorithmic game theory and computational social science
- Sarit Kraus – non-monotonic reasoning
M
- John Maynard Smith – evolutionary game theory[2][3]
- Oskar Morgenstern – social organization[4]
- Roger Myerson – mechanism design (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2007)
N
- John F Nash – Nash equilibrium (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994)[5]
- John Von Neumann – Minimax theorem, expected utility, social organization, arms race[4]
- Abraham Neyman – Stochastic games, Shapley value
P
- Geoff Parker - evolutionary game theory[6]
- J. M. R. Parrondo – games with a reversal of fortune, such as Parrondo's games
- Charles E. M. Pearce – games applied to queuing theory
- George R. Price – evolutionary game theory[2]
- Anatol Rapoport – Mathematical psychologist, early proponent of tit-for-tat in repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
R
- Julia Robinson – proved that fictitious play dynamics converges to the mixed strategy Nash equilibrium in two-player zero-sum games
- Alvin E. Roth – market design (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012)
- Ariel Rubinstein – bargaining theory, learning and language
S
- Thomas Jerome Schaefer – computational complexity of perfect-information games
- Suzanne Scotchmer – patent law incentive models
- Reinhard Selten – bounded rationality (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994)
- Claude Shannon – studied cryptography and chess; sometimes called "the father of information theory"[7][8]
- Lloyd Shapley – Shapley value and core concept in coalition games (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012)
- Eilon Solan – Stochastic games, stopping games
- Thomas Schelling – bargaining (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005) and models of segregation
T
- Éva Tardos – algorithmic game theory
- Stef Tijs – cooperative game theory (including the Tijs value)
V
W
- Myrna Wooders – coalition theory
References
- ↑ Hamilton, W.D. (1996). "Selection of selfish and altruistic beviour in some extreme models.". in Hamilton, W. D.. Narrow Roads of Gene Land: the collected papers of W.D. Hamilton. Volume 1 Evolution of Social Behaviour. Basingstoke New York: W H Freeman. pp. 198–227. ISBN 9780716745303.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Maynard Smith, John; Price, George R (1973). "The logic of animal conflict". Nature 246: 15–18.
- ↑ Maynard Smith, John (1982). Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521288842.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Von Neumann, John; Morgenstern, Oskar (1953). Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (3rd ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691003629.
- ↑ Nash, John F (1950). "Equilibrium Points in n-Person Games". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 36: 48–49.
- ↑ Parker, Geoff A (1974). "Assessment strategy and the evolution of fighting behaviour". Journal of Theoretical Biology 47 (1): 223–243. doi:10.1016/0022-5193(74)990111-8. PMID 4477626.
- ↑ James, I. (2009). "Claude Elwood Shannon 30 April 1916 – 24 February 2001". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 55: 257–265. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2009.0015.
- ↑ "Bell Labs Advances Intelligent Networks". http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLd4w39w3RL8h2VAQAGOJBYA!!?LMSG_CABINET=Bell_Labs&LMSG_CONTENT_FILE=News_Features/News_Feature_Detail_000025.
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