A Course in Stochastic Game Theory Hardback
by Eilon (Tel-Aviv University) Solan
Part of the London Mathematical Society Student Texts series
Hardback
Description
Stochastic games have an element of chance: the state of the next round is determined probabilistically depending upon players' actions and the current state.
Successful players need to balance the need for short-term payoffs while ensuring future opportunities remain high.
The various techniques needed to analyze these often highly non-trivial games are a showcase of attractive mathematics, including methods from probability, differential equations, algebra, and combinatorics.
This book presents a course on the theory of stochastic games going from the basics through to topics of modern research, focusing on conceptual clarity over complete generality.
Each of its chapters introduces a new mathematical tool - including contracting mappings, semi-algebraic sets, infinite orbits, and Ramsey's theorem, among others - before discussing the game-theoretic results they can be used to obtain.
The author assumes no more than a basic undergraduate curriculum and illustrates the theory with numerous examples and exercises, with solutions available online.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:275 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/05/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781316516331
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:275 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/05/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781316516331
