Lucye Rafferty/The Hoya Professor Ariel Rubinstein discusses game theory yesterday in ICC Auditorium. Here’s a problem: you have to share $100 with someone that you don’t know. You must offer to split ...

What does it mean to behave rationally? This question sounds like a problem for philosophers. Yet mathematicians also have something to say about it. In the last few decades, game theory—the ...

His mind was beautiful, but troubled. His math was just beautiful. John Forbes Nash Jr., who died in a traffic accident on May 23, gained more fame than most mathematicians, though not only on account ...

What if you could predict your competitor’s next move before they even made it? Game theory gives you the tools to do just that. Have you ever noticed how a new product launched by one brand often ...

In a recent artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning breakthrough in game theory, researchers solve a persistent problem with real-world applicability—for the better. At last month’s 34th ...