Non-cooperative Games

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Non-cooperative Games is John Nash’s seminal 1950 paper that founded modern non-cooperative game theory and introduced the concept now known as Nash equilibrium.

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instanceOf academic paper
game theory paper
scientific article
author John Nash
surface form: John F. Nash

John Nash
surface form: John Forbes Nash Jr.
citationStyleTitle Non-Cooperative Games
contribution formulated equilibrium as a fixed point of best-response mappings
founded modern non-cooperative game theory
proved existence of equilibrium for finite non-cooperative games
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
defines equilibrium point of a game
mixed strategy
non-cooperative game in normal form
field economics
game theory
mathematics
focusesOn finite games
games with a finite number of pure strategies
non-cooperative games with a finite number of players
strategic-form games
hasAuthorAffiliation Princeton University
historicalSignificance one of the foundational papers of modern game theory
seminal work in non-cooperative game theory
influencedField evolutionary game theory
industrial organization
microeconomics
political science
theory of bargaining
introducedConcept Non-cooperative Games self-linksurface differs
surface form: Nash equilibrium

non-cooperative game
strategic-form game equilibrium
language English
mainResult every finite non-cooperative game has at least one equilibrium point in mixed strategies
existence theorem for equilibrium points in n-person games
originalSubmissionYear 1950
publicationYear 1951
publishedIn Annals of Mathematics
publisher Annals of Mathematics
recognition associated with John Nash’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994
relatedConcept best response
mixed-strategy equilibrium
normal-form representation of games
relatedTo Equilibrium points in n-person games
Nash bargaining solution
surface form: The Bargaining Problem
topic equilibrium analysis in games without binding agreements
strategic interaction among rational players
usesTool Kakutani fixed-point theorem
fixed-point theorem

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A Beautiful Mind (biography) coversTopic Non-cooperative Games
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John Nash doctoralThesis Non-cooperative Games
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John Nash notableIdea Non-cooperative Games
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John Nash notableWork Non-cooperative Games
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John Nash notableWork Non-cooperative Games