The coming of game theory
Abstract
This is a brief historical note on game theory. We cover its
historical roots (prior to its formal definition in 1944), and look at its
development until the late 1960’s.
Description
This paper is a new version of an article published in 1994 in the
European Journal of Business Education (4, 1, pp. 30–45), which
appeared in Italian translation in the book ‘Giochi competitivi e cooperativi ’ ( I ed., Cedam, Padova, 1997; II ed., Giappichelli,
Torino, 2003). The authors are most grateful to Dunia Milanesi
for her invaluable help in updating this paper.