Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann, then a lecturer at the University of Berlin, launched the field of game theory with a study of two-player "zero-sum" games, in which the players have ...

Game theory got its start with the work of John von Neumann in the 1920s, which culminated in his book with Oskar Morgenstern. They studied "zero-sum" games where the interests of two players were ...

Originally developed by John von Neumann to study poker, chess, and other games, game theory analyzes complex situations in which the best strategy of one player depends on the actions of another.

Hermann used her mathematical training to point out a flaw in von Neumann’s famous 1932 proof, which said that no hidden-variable theory can ever reproduce the features of quantum mechanics In making ...