Game Theory and Minorities in American Literature
This interdisciplinary monograph applies the theory of games of strategy (or game theory) to an important subset of American literature: minoritarian texts. Fittingly, John von Neumann's game theory, as a mathematical subdiscipline practically abandoned by its founder after the publication of 'Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele' (1928), but purposefully reengaged with on his permanent relocation to America in 1938, carries the minoritarian credentials of a Hungarian-born national of Jewish descent. The state of international politics in the late 1930s certainly contributed to von Neumann's renewed interest in his theory, but a socioeconomic…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-58822-7
- EAN: 9781137588227
- Produktnummer: 22505199
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'377 KB
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Michael Wainwright is Associate Lecturer of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of Darwin and Faulkner's Novels: Evolution and Southern Fiction.
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