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Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behavior. Only much later did he realize that Asimov's 'psychohistory' had a real-world equivalent: game theory. Originating in the study of probabilistic gambling games that depend on a random source--the throw of a dice or the toss of a coin--game theory soon came to be applied to human interactions: essentially, what was the best strategy to win whatever you were doing? Its mathematical techniques have been applied, with varying degrees of wisdom, to fields such as economics, evolution, and questions such as how to win a nuclear war. Clegg delves into game theory's colorful history and significant findings and shows what we can all learn from this oft-misunderstood field of study.

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Brian Clegg is a popular-science writer whose Dice World and A Brief History of Infinity were both longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Also the author of Big Data, Gravitational Waves, The Graphene Revolution, and Quantum Computing for the Hot Science series, he has written for publications such as Nature, Physics World, The Times, The Observer, and BBC Focus. Mike Cooper is a talented producer and voiceover artist who has served in a variety of roles at BBC, ITV, and BSkyB. With over twenty years of media experience, he works out of his home studio in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

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