Game Theory and Postwar American Literature
If game theory, the mathematical simulation of rational decision-making first axiomatically established by the Hungarian-born American mathematician John von Neumann, is to prove worthy of literary hermeneutics, then critics must be able to apply its models to texts written without a working knowledge of von Neumann's discipline in mind. Reading such iconic novels as Fahrenheit 451, In Cold Blood, and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye from the perspective of the four most frequently encountered coordination problems - the Stag Hunt, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Chicken, and Deadlock, Game Theory and Postwar American Literature illustrates the significant cont…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-60133-9
- EAN: 9781137601339
- Produktnummer: 22345775
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'121 KB
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Michael Wainwright is Associate Lecturer of English and Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
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