Abstract
Game theory is the study of strategic interactions. This course is about asking what happens when people or things with different incentives or motivations interact \textit{against} one another to achieve their own best outcome. It has become the underpinning of evolutionary theory, economics, business processes, international relations and is the subject of major motion pictures, like `A Beautiful Mind'. In this course we will discover the laws underpinning every game and study specific examples of different types of games taken using examples from literature, the movies, board games, economics, molecular biology, international politics, business studies, dating, game shows, government funding opportunities and, of all things, fuel injection mechanisms in cars and the songs of the Dunes in the Sahel. Students who like mathematics will enjoy the course, and those who are less adept at maths but who enjoy playing constructively will benefit from taking this course.
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