1.1 Game Theory, Rationality, and Intelligence Game theory can be defined as the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers. Game theory provides general mathematical techniques for analyzing situations in which two or more individuals make decisions that will influence one another's welfare. As such, game theory offers insights of fundamental importance for scholars in all branches of the social sciences, as well as for practical decision-makers. The situations that game theorists study are not merely recreational activities, as the term "game" might unfortunately suggest. "Conflict analysis" or "interactive decision theory" might be more descriptively accurate names for the subject, but the name "game theory" seems to be here to stay. Modern game theory may be said to begin with the work of Zermelo (1913), Borel (1921), von Neumann (1928), and the great seminal book of von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944). Much of
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