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A popular article that does a good job on a technical subject -- that's rare, but the author pulled it off. In the late 1970s, I decided to move from mathemati
by CurtMonash 11y ago
A popular article that does a good job on a technical subject -- that's rare, but the author pulled it off.
In the late 1970s, I decided to move from mathematics to business and/or public policy. So I wrote a thesis in game theory, extending von Neumann's MinMax Theorem, about a year after learning what the MinMax Theorem even was. So it's safe to say the mathematics of game theory was a bit thin back in those days, and I haven't heard of great progress in the intervening decades either.
As for applicability -- once again, the author got it right.
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