T
Tel-Aviv University, 166
Tennis, 141–142
Terrorist networks, 167
Theory of everything, 7–8, 222
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (von Neumann and Morgenstern), 26, 35–36, 51, 52–53, 68, 217
Theory of heat, 39–43, 136
Theory of Moral Sentiments (Smith), 22–23, 24, 106–107
Thermodynamics, laws of, 60, 136, 210.
See also Theory of heat
Torguud Mongols, 116
Townsend, Charles, 15
Trust, 103–106, 107, 111
Tucker, Albert W., 55, 61–62, 240
U
Ultimatum game, 61, 92, 103–106, 110, 112, 114–117, 243
Universality doctrine, 120–121
University College London, 77
University of Berlin, 29, 30
University of Budapest, 29
University of California, Berkeley, 214
University of California, Los Angeles, 114, 118
University of California, San Diego, 185–186
University of Chicago, 11, 52, 78
University of Cologne, 173
University of Ghent, 132
University of Glasgow, 15
University of Hull, 195
University of Maryland, 70
University of Massachusetts, 37
University of Michigan, 88, 178
University of Minnesota, 106
University of Oxford, 15, 75
University of Vienna, 34, 76
University of Virginia, 145
University of Wroclaw, 169
University of Zurich, 29
Utilitarianism doctrine, 30–31
Utility
brain processes, 99, 100–101, 109
defined, 22, 23, 27, 30
dopamine as reward, 97, 101
in economics, 31, 37–43, 95
emotions and, 96–97
evolutionary fitness, 78–79, 83–85, 88, 158, 161
mathematical quantification, 31–32, 39–43, 211–213, 237, 238
in neuroeconomics, 99–100
ranking (valuation), 40–41, 56
temperature analogy, 39–43
utilitarianism doctrine, 30–31
Utility theory, 237
V
Violence, spectating and, 81–83
von Neumann, John, 26, 28–30, 33, 34, 35–40, 42, 43, 47, 48, 49–50, 51, 52–54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 75, 95, 185–186, 217, 221, 237–238, 239, 242
Voting
behavior, 167–168, 174, 214
quantum game theory application, 185, 190, 194–196
W
Wald, Abraham, 249
Waldegrave, James, 32
Warfare, 83
Watts, Duncan, 144, 149, 152, 153, 157, 174
Wealth, 31
Wealth of Nations (Smith), 9, 12–14, 16, 17–22, 24, 106–107
Weber, Robert, 59
Weibull, Jörgen, 111–112
Wilson, Kenneth, 166
Winner-takes-all game, 78
Wolfram, Stephen, 235, 236–237
Wolpert, David, 4, 6, 7–8, 199–201, 209–214, 215, 249
World War II, 45–46
World Wide Web, 7, 147, 149–150, 157, 158–159, 160
Wu, Zhi-Xi, 246
Y
Yale University, 180
Z
Zak, Paul, 105–106, 109
Zermelo, Ernst, 32–33
Zero-sum games
equilibrium point, 58, 225–227
two-person, 33, 43–50, 53, 54, 58, 60, 186
Zhang, Yi-Cheng, 176
Zhou, Lan, 192, 193
A Beautiful Math Page 30