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Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life
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Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life Paperback - 2008

by Len Fisher

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The IgNobel Prize-winning author of How to Dunk a Doughnut draws on the science of game theory to explain how human beings cooperate in everyday life.

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  • Title Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life
  • Author Len Fisher
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Publication date 2008-11-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780465009381 / 0465009387
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Mathematics
  • Library of Congress subjects Game theory
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008025592
  • Dewey Decimal Code 519.3

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Citations

  • Booklist, 10/15/2008, Page 8
  • Choice, 08/01/2009, Page 0
  • Newsweek, 12/01/2008, Page 13
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/22/2008, Page 56
  • Scientific American, 01/01/2009, Page 106

About the author

Len Fisher, Ph.D., is author of The Perfect Swarm; Rock, Paper, Scissors; Weighing the Soul; and the prize-winning How to Dunk a Doughnut. He lives in Wiltshire, England, and Blackheath, Australia.

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