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This is a list of notable
economists,
mathematicians,
political scientists, and
computer scientists whose work has added substantially to the field of
game theory.
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Derek Abbott –
quantum game theory and
Parrondo's games
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Susanne Albers –
algorithmic game theory and algorithm analysis
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Kenneth Arrow – voting theory (
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972)
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Robert Aumann – equilibrium theory (
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005)
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Robert Axelrod – repeated
Prisoner's Dilemma
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Tamer Başar – dynamic game theory and application
robust control of systems with uncertainty
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Cristina Bicchieri –
epistemology of game theory
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Olga Bondareva –
Bondareva–Shapley theorem
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Steven Brams –
cake cutting,
fair division,
theory of moves
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Jennifer Tour Chayes –
algorithmic game theory and
auction algorithms
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John Horton Conway – combinatorial game theory
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William Hamilton –
evolutionary biology
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John Harsanyi – equilibrium theory (
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
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Monika Henzinger – algorithmic game theory and
information retrieval
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Naira Hovakimyan –
differential games and
adaptive control
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Peter L. Hurd – evolution of aggressive behavior
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Rufus Isaacs –
differential games
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Ehud Kalai –
Kalai-Smorodinski bargaining solution, rational learning, strategic complexity
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Anna Karlin –
algorithmic game theory and
online algorithms
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Michael Kearns –
algorithmic game theory and
computational social science
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Sarit Kraus –
non-monotonic reasoning
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John Maynard Smith –
evolutionary biology
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Oskar Morgenstern – social organization
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John Forbes Nash –
Nash equilibrium (
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
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John von Neumann –
Minimax theorem, expected utility, social organization, arms race
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Abraham Neyman –
Stochastic games,
Shapley value
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J. M. R. Parrondo – games with a reversal of fortune, such as
Parrondo's games
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Charles E. M. Pearce – games applied to
queuing theory
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George R. Price –
theoretical and
evolutionary biology
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Anatol Rapoport –
Mathematical psychologist, early proponent of
tit-for-tat in repeated
Prisoner's Dilemma
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Julia Robinson – proved that
fictitious play dynamics converges to the
mixed strategy
Nash equilibrium in two-player
zero-sum games
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Alvin E. Roth –
market design (
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012)
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Ariel Rubinstein – bargaining theory, learning and language
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Thomas Jerome Schaefer – computational complexity of perfect-information games
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Suzanne Scotchmer – patent law incentive models
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Reinhard Selten –
bounded rationality (
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
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Claude Shannon – studied
cryptography and
chess; sometimes called "the father of
information theory"
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Lloyd Shapley –
Shapley value and
core concept in
coalition games (
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012)
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Eilon Solan –
Stochastic games, stopping games
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Thomas Schelling – bargaining (
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005) and models of segregation
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Myrna Wooders –
coalition theory
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