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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the last few months U.S.-China trade relations have been pretty hard to make sense of – unless you look at what's happening through the lens of game theory. Game theory is all about how decisions ...