A priori and a posteriori
A priori probability
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Action potential
Ad hoc hypothesis
Analogy
Asymmetry
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Author_Ruthild Winkler
Axiom
Calculation
Catalysis
Categorical imperative
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Causality
Chance and Necessity
Code word (figure of speech)
Combination
Competition
Concept
Consciousness
Cooperative game
Cooperativity
Copying
Correlation and dependence
Coulomb's law
Decision-making
Diagram
Diagram (category theory)
Disruptive selection
Distribution law
Dynamic equilibrium
Ehrenfest model
Enzyme
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Ergodicity
Evolution
Extrapolation
Game Theory
Gamete
Gene
Heuristic argument
Hypothesis
Illustration
Information theory
Law of mass action
Le Chatelier's principle
Mathematician
Mating
Molecule
Nucleic acid
Organism
Parity problem (sieve theory)
Physical law
Physicist
Precondition
Prediction
Probability
Probability distribution
Protein
Quantity
Rate function
Result
Ring species
RNA
Second law of thermodynamics
Self-organization
Spinozism
Summation
Temperature
Theory
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
Thermodynamic equilibrium
Thought
Turing machine
Product details
- ISBN 9780691025667
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 11 Apr 1993
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Using game theory and examples of actual games people play, Nobel laureate Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler show how the elements of chance and rules underlie all that happens in the universe, from genetic behavior through economic growth to the composition of music. To illustrate their argument, the authors turn to classic games--backgammon, bridge, and chess--and relate them to physical, biological, and social applications of probability theory and number theory. Further, they have invented, and present here, more than a dozen playable games derived from scientific models for equilibrium, selection, growth, and even the composition of RNA.
Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler are scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. In 1967 Eigen received the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
