Update

[Chris Boyd]

Hi All, Our meeting at Kepler's on Nov 10 covered many aspects of game theory and it's applications including zero sum, non zero sum, and simple (voting) games and their dynamics over time, including modeling  evolution with the Prisoner's Dilemma. Past President Bill Clinton's favorite book on the subject: Nonzero:  The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright Anatol; Rapoport, twice winner of Axelrod's contest to solve the Prisoner's Dilemma using the Tit-for-Tat solution has several books on game theory including The Prisoner's Dilemma. William Poundstone has a book on the Prisoner's Dilemma outing the history of the game and variations on the game such as Chicken, Stag Hunt, and Deadlock. For the more mathematically oriented there is Martin Shubik's Game Theory in the Social Sciences--Concepts and Solutions published by MIT. Next month we will be at Le Bouolanger in Cupertino covering Mlodinow's Kahneman inspired The Drunkard's Walk--How Randomness Rules Our Lives. January's book--The Perfect Swarm--The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life. There is still time to register for the RG in Pleasanton this weekend.  Single day registrations are available.  Check it out at sfmensa.org.  Frank Nemec's son Philip will present Saturday morning on the Google self-driving car. Happy Thanksgiving Chris Boyd