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A rock, a piece of paper and a pair of scissors, each formed from a mass of microbes, are arranged in a cycle.
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Biodiversity May Thrive Through Games of Rock-Paper-Scissors

By Carrie Arnold
March 5, 2020
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Recent findings add weight to the evidence that the intransitive competitions between species enrich the diversity of nature.

Abstractions blog

Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life

By Viviane Callier
April 15, 2019
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Researchers are beginning to understand the ways in which viruses strategically manipulate and cooperate with one another.

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2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths

By Erica Klarreich
August 1, 2018
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The theoretical computer scientist Constantinos Daskalakis has won the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize for explicating core questions in game theory and machine learning.

Illustration for Rock Paper Scissors
Quantized Academy

Why Winning in Rock-Paper-Scissors (and in Life) Isn’t Everything

By Patrick Honner
April 2, 2018
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What does John Nash’s game theory equilibrium concept look like in Rock-Paper-Scissors?

Game Theory cake puzzle
Insights puzzle

Solution: ‘Triumph or Cooperation in Game Theory and Evolution’

By Pradeep Mutalik
December 8, 2017
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How well does the Nash equilibrium concept from game theory map to the real world?

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Insights puzzle

How to Triumph and Cooperate in Game Theory and Evolution

By Pradeep Mutalik
November 9, 2017
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In applying game theory to biology and human behavior, have scientists focused too much on competition over cooperation?

Nash equilibrium maze
game theory

In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium

By Erica Klarreich
July 18, 2017
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John Nash’s notion of equilibrium is ubiquitous in economic theory, but a new study shows that it is often impossible to reach efficiently.

profiles

A Life in Games

By Siobhan Roberts
August 28, 2015
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The mathematician John Horton Conway’s myriad accomplishments — including the Game of Life, sprouts and the surreal numbers — are the product of a mind at play.

evolution

Game Theory Calls Cooperation Into Question

By Emily Singer
February 12, 2015
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A new solution to the prisoner’s dilemma, a classic game theory scenario, has created new puzzles in evolutionary biology.


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