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Name: Prisoner's dilemma
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Author: William Poundstone

📘 Prisoner's dilemma by William Poundstone

Watching poker players bluff inspired John von Neumann, the father of the modern computer, to formulate game theory—a mathematical framework for conflict and deception. Embraced by the RAND Corporation, the discipline shaped military strategy in the atomic age. In 1950 RAND scientists discovered the "prisoner’s dilemma," a game in which individuals can betray the common good for personal gain, becoming an enduring allegory of the nuclear arms race. Game theory has since become a controversial public policy tool, sometimes blamed for arms buildups and at other times hailed as a means to prevent them. Poundstone weaves together a biography of von Neumann, the history of Cold War milestones, and an investigation of game theory’s far-reaching influence.

First publish date: 1992

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography

Authors: William Poundstone

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