When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it’s easy to conclude that parents who don’t vaccinate their children are ...

7/16/2008 - John Nash. Roger Myerson. Robert Aumann. Eric Maskin. Just some of the quantitative luminaries on hand for the Game Theory Society’s Third World Congress, hosted by the Kellogg School from ...

Imagine you had a friend who gave different answers to the same question, depending on how you asked it. “What’s the capital of Peru?” would get one answer, and “Is Lima the capital of Peru?” would ...

Ever wonder how nodes are incentivized in a blockchain to ensure trust, consensus and cooperation in a system with no central authority? The answer lies in game theory, the mathematical study of ...

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the ...

Thank Goodness You’re Here! is a hard game to describe—except to say that it’s the best comedy game we’ve played in the last few years. Created by Will Todd and Jason Carbutt—who, along with an ...

Each side must predict how the other will react to avoid mutual destruction. By Amanda Taub Reporting from London For years, the conflict between Israel and Iran had unofficial but fairly clear rules, ...

The everyday meaning of “common knowledge” is knowledge held in common, often as an open secret. For example, it is common knowledge that publishers like books that seek, via quirky examples, to ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine you had a friend who gave different answers to the same question, depending on how you asked it. “What’s the capital of Peru?” ...