theory of games
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of theory of games
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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NARRATOR: Proved the Minimax theorem and theory of games…
From Scientific American ● Mar. 31, 2022
One of the best-known of these efforts is the "theory of games" evolved by Mathematician John von Neumann and Economist Oskar Morgenstern in 1944, which attempts to translate human decision-making into pure mathematics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wright-Patterson's electronic "air war simulator," developed by Brigadier General Leighton I. Davis, head of the Air Force's Institute of Technology, is based on a rarefied kind of mathematics: the Von Neumann theory of games.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It has to do with the laws of probability and the theory of games," he said.
From The Fourth R by Smith, George Oliver
Agonist′ics, the art and theory of games and prize-fighting.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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