Let the physical basis of a social economy be given— or, to take a broader view of the matter, of a society. According to all tradition and experience human beings have a characteristic way of ...

At first glance, it seems strange to think that math used for describing business competition, fighting terrorists and playing poker would also have anything to do with the origin of life. But you ...

A new study uses neural networks to prove that memory and individual recognition allow cooperation to defeat selfishness in the prisoner's dilemma.

In 1950, John Nash — the mathematician later featured in the book and film “A Beautiful Mind” — wrote a two-page paper that transformed the theory of economics. His crucial, yet utterly simple, idea ...

IN THE film A Beautiful Mind, John Nash and his buddies, all of them graduate students in mathematics at Princeton University, are sitting in a smoky bar when a group of women walk in. As the men ...

Isaac Asimov excelled at predicting the future. In one of his early science fiction stories, he introduced pocket calculators decades before you could buy them at Radio Shack. In a later book, he ...