Prisoner's Dilemma
John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb

When is a math book not a math book? How about when it's a biography, or a history of the early Cold War years? Clocking in at 278 pages, this book is sort of three books in one. It's kind of a look at Game Theory. Sometimes it's a biography of John Von Neumann, and then at other times it's a primer......more

This book is three intertwined story lines, all separate, but related. The first is a short biography of John von Neumann, the founder of game theory. The second is a layman's explanation of game theory, with many examples of various games, their properties, and how they might be applied to real lif......more

Biografía de John Von Neumann, sin duda uno de los científicos más inteligentes que ha habido, atendiendo a los testimonios de todo aquel que le rodeara. Trabajó en un montón de cosas, desde la creación del ordenador hasta la bomba atómica, pasando por la matemática pura. Lamentablemente, en este li......more

When one wants to write about something which will sustain only a quarter of a book's worth of print, one can be clever in a number of ways. I've no clue if Mr. Poundstone resorted to such padding techniques or if he merely threw together an olio of interesting stuff using John von Neumann as a jump......more

My next book, continuing my quest to misunderstand nuclear physics. Word of the day mamihlapinatapai. Meaning "looking at each other hoping that either will offer to do something that both parties desire but are unwilling to do."......more