As we approach the fantasy playoffs, it’s a good time to revisit the ideas of Optimality and Game Theory. In Optimality, you’re always striving for the best possible outcome at the least possible cost ...

All the world’s a game, and all the men and women merely decision-makers interacting at varying degrees of rationality. Justin Grana plays several parts: A Santa Fe Institute researcher, an economist, ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Game theory was once hailed as a revolutionary ...

If natural selection is survival of the fittest, why isn't everything a competition? Cooperation and competition have a fitness face off in game theory. Evolutionary games are often visually ...

TOPSHOT - President Trump's plan to create a "national bitcoin stockpile" has fueled speculation that other countries will follow suit. Game theory helps explain the logic behind Bitcoin's recent ...

Thanks to the sterling efforts of Sylvia Nasar, Ron Howard, and Russell Crowe, many people are aware that John Nash, the Princeton mathematician who was killed over the weekend in a car crash on the ...