Titlebook: Game Theory and Minorities in American Literature; Michael Wainwright Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Afric

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noritarian texts.Fittingly, John von Neumann‘s game theory, as a mathematical subdiscipline practically abandoned by its founder after the publication of ‘Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele‘ (1928), but purposefully reengaged with on his permanent relocation to America in 1938, carries the minorita

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An Insurance Against a Short Life,lization is reputedly true to the original.. “A district attorney,” writes Watzlawick, “is holding two men suspected of armed robbery. There is not enough evidence to take the case to court, so he has the two men brought to his office.” The attorney, continues Watzlawick,

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On Preliminary Matters,eryday sense, carries the connotation of a particularly skillful or adroit plan, whereas in Game Theory it designates any . plan.” In short, “.; for everything that the enemy or Nature may choose to do, together with a set of possible actions for yourself, is just part of the description of the stra

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On the Theory of Games of Strategy,symétriques” (1921), made his first public pronouncements on the subject of strategic games on December 7, 1926, when he addressed a short paper to the G?ttingen Mathematical Society. His appearance at this time and on this subject nicely fitted the opinions of British mathematician Alfred North Whi

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On Game Theory and Aesthetics,to usher in the prospect of nuclear Armageddon, these two domains provided some comfort. “For the artist and for the scientist,” he stated, “there is a special problem and a special hope.” The nuclear age “has been long in coming; but it has come. It is, I think, for us and our children, our only wa

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On Douglass and Dialectics,t a majoritarian precept, what Frantz Fanon terms the “racial epidermal schema” (112), for their own ends. Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–1895), although of mixed race—“My mother was named Harriet Bailey. She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey, both colored, and quite dark,” he recalls in . (1

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On Rousseau and Minoritarian Inequality,Douglass and his collaborators for their attempted escape from Freeland’s farm effectively presages the establishment of a Prisoner’s Dilemma. RAND Corporation analyst Albert W. Tucker christened this central coordination problem in 1950, and Paul Watzlawick’s more recent rendition of Tucker’s visua

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,On Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and Douglass,; and ., his ., dates to 1758.. Rousseau’s “earliest formulation […] exploded on the European scene,” as Allan Bloom chronicles, “with a force hardly credible to us today” (147). His ., as an “attack on the Enlightenment based on the . principles that motivated Enlightenment” (147–148; emphasis orig

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