This is a list of notable

economists An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are ...

mathematicians A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History One ...

political scientists This is a list of notable political scientists. See the list of political theorists for those who study political theory. See also political science. A * Robert Abelson - Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special int ...

, and

computer scientists Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (including th ...

whose work has added substantially to the field of

game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...

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Derek Abbott Derek Abbott (born 3 May 1960) is a British-Australian physicist and electronic engineer. He was born in South Kensington, London, UK. From 1969 to 1971, he was a boarder at Copthorne Preparatory School, Sussex. From 1971 to 1978, he attended ...

quantum game theory Quantum game theory is an extension of classical game theory to the quantum domain. It differs from classical game theory in three primary ways: # Superposed initial states, #Quantum entanglement of initial states, #Superposition of strategies to be ...

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Susanne Albers Susanne Albers is a German theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science at the Department of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich. She is a recipient of the Otto Hahn Medal and the Leibniz Prize. Education and c ...

algorithmic game theory Algorithmic game theory (AGT) is an area in the intersection of game theory and computer science, with the objective of understanding and design of algorithms in strategic environments. Typically, in Algorithmic Game Theory problems, the input t ...

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Kenneth Arrow Kenneth Joseph Arrow (23 August 1921 – 21 February 2017) was an American economist, mathematician, writer, and political theorist. He was the joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Hicks in 1972. In economics ...

- voting theory (

Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...

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Robert Aumann Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: , Yisrael Aumann; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew ...

- equilibrium theory (

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Robert Axelrod Robert Marshall Axelrod (born May 27, 1943) is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he has been since 1974. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work o ...

- repeated

Prisoner's Dilemma The Prisoner's Dilemma is an example of a game analyzed in game theory. It is also a thought experiment that challenges two completely rational agents to a dilemma: cooperate with their partner for mutual reward, or betray their partner ("defe ...

Tamer Başar Mustafa Tamer Başar (born January 19, 1946) is a control and game theorist who is the ''Swanlund Endowed Chair'' and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ...

- dynamic game theory and application

robust control In control theory, robust control is an approach to controller design that explicitly deals with uncertainty. Robust control methods are designed to function properly provided that uncertain parameters or disturbances are found within some (typicall ...

of systems with uncertainty *

Cristina Bicchieri Cristina Bicchieri (born 1950) is an Italian–American philosopher. She is the S.J.P. Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the Philosophy and Psychology Departments at the University of Pennsylvania, professor of Legal S ...

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Episte ...

of game theory * Olga Bondareva - Bondareva–Shapley theorem * Steven Brams - fair cake-cutting, cake cutting, fair division, theory of moves * Jennifer Tour Chayes -

and auction algorithms * John Horton Conway - combinatorial game theory * Olivier Gossner - value of information, bounded rationality * W.D. Hamilton, William Hamilton - evolutionary biology * John Harsanyi - equilibrium theory (

1994) * Monika Henzinger - algorithmic game theory and information retrieval * Naira Hovakimyan - differential games and adaptive control * Peter L. Hurd - evolution of aggressive behavior * Rufus Isaacs (game theorist), Rufus Isaacs - differential games * Ehud Kalai - Kalai-Smorodinski bargaining solution, rational learning, strategic complexity * Anna Karlin -

and online algorithms * Michael Kearns (computer scientist), Michael Kearns -

and computational social science * Sarit Kraus - non-monotonic reasoning * Ehud Lehrer - Repeated games, approachability theory * John Maynard Smith - evolutionary biology * Oskar Morgenstern - social organization * John Forbes Nash - Nash equilibrium (

1994) * John von Neumann - Minimax theorem, expected utility, social organization, arms race * Abraham Neyman - Stochastic games, Shapley value * J. M. R. Parrondo - games with a reversal of fortune, such as Parrondo's games * Charles E. M. Pearce - games applied to queuing theory * George R. Price - theoretical biology, theoretical and evolutionary biology * Anatol Rapoport - mathematical psychology, Mathematical psychologist, early proponent of tit-for-tat in repeated

* Julia Robinson - proved that fictitious play dynamics converges to the mixed strategy Nash equilibrium in two-player zero-sum games * Alvin E. Roth - market design (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012) * Ariel Rubinstein - bargaining theory, learning and language * Thomas Jerome Schaefer - computational complexity of perfect-information games * Suzanne Scotchmer - patent law incentive models * Reinhard Selten - bounded rationality (

1994) * Claude Shannon - studied cryptography and chess; sometimes called "the father of information theory" * Lloyd Shapley - Shapley value and core (economics), core concept in coalition games (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012) * Eilon Solan - Stochastic games, stopping games * Thomas Schelling - bargaining (

2005) and models of segregation * Nicolas Vieille - Stochastic games * Myrna Wooders - coalition theory

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