The first game theory book I read was Compleat Strategyst [1]. Less interesting flipping through it now, but at least at the time it was a good sales pitch, lea

The first game theory book I read was Compleat Strategyst [1]. Less interesting flipping through it now, but at least at the time it was a good sales pitch, leading me to read a bunch more on the topic. Seeing analytic techniques applied across competitive games was a revelatory moment for high-school-me, in the mind-candy sense. In an odd way, learning to try to wrap math around human activities shaped how I approached programming for a long time. Not that I was trying to apply game theory to programming, rather the general approach of thinking about the world as a sort of meta-word-problem. Wish I had started trying to get rid of that habit earlier. [1] https://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB113-1.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB113-1.html