3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American mathematician and Berkeley professor, co-inventor of the Berlekamp-Welch algorithm and co-author of Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays, who briefly ran Renaissance Technologies and reoriented the Medallion Fund toward short-term trading.
Hungarian-American mathematician — who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics (von Neumann algebras), game theory (minimax theorem), computing (von Neumann architecture), nuclear weapons design, and self-replicating automata — widely considered the greatest mathematician of the 20th century after Gödel.
Nobel Prize-winning economist who founded the study of strategic interaction — introducing focal points, commitment devices, and the analysis of bargaining under incomplete information.