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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2022
      May 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009029704
      9781316516331
      9781009014793
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029704
      Dimensions:
      (235 x 158 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 278 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 151 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Mathematics (general), Economics, Mathematics, Microeconomics, Optimisation
      Series:
      London Mathematical Society Student Texts (103)
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    Subjects:
    Mathematics (general), Economics, Mathematics, Microeconomics, Optimisation
    Series:
    London Mathematical Society Student Texts (103)
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    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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    ‘The book presents a course on the theory of stochastic games. It is self-contained and accessible at an undergraduate level. Instead of seeking the most general results and the broadest spectrum of knowledge in the field, the author prefers firstly to focus with great care on the most central aspects of the theory and then analyses more specifically some particular classes of stochastic games.’

    Catherine Rainer Source: zbMATH

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