Isaac Asimov excelled at predicting the future. In one of his early science fiction stories, he introduced pocket calculators decades before you could buy them at Radio Shack. In a later book, he ...

Harold Kuhn, a Princeton mathematician who advanced game theory and brought mathematical approaches to economics, died of congestive heart failure in New York on July 2. He was 88 years old. Kuhn, who ...

NEW YORK – Game theory, a branch of mathematics dealing with strategic thinking, has been applied to scenarios of war, business and biology. But parenting? You bet, says writer and New York City dad ...

A romance often involves flowers, nice music and a well-lit dinner. Now a study from England uses mathematical game theory to figure out how best to snag that special someone. Stanford math professor ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Balaji Viswanathan, currently working on From Tryst to Tendulkar: The History of Independent India: Game theory is a study of strategies involved ...

A researcher has solved a nearly 60-year-old game theory dilemma called the wall pursuit game, with implications for better reasoning about autonomous systems such as driver-less vehicles. To ...

I SAW the film A Beautiful Mind on an aeroplane, dubbed into German with subtitles in Spanish. Though I struggled to make sense of it, it was clear this wasn’t a detailed exposition of the ...