Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
Office Hours for Spring 2013: TTh 8-10 or by appointment.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
206 Loyola Hall
phone: (773) 508-3575
If you want to
send me an email message click on the address below:
Classes for Fall 2013
1. Math/Stat
103 Introduction to Statistics (see the Course Description at www.luc.edu/math
2.
Game Theory, . A talk delivered in the
Undergraduate Colloquium series on April 22 was an introduction to problems
covered in game theory. The slides for the talk are available here :Introduction to Game Theory
These classes are accessed through www.blackboard.luc.edu. You get on to Blackboard using your Loyola userid and Password.
GAME THEORY BOOK
Text: Game
Theory, An Introduction, Second Edition, by E.N.Barron,
published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013. Buy from AMAZON.COM,
or Half.com.
All errors for Edition 1 will be available by clicking here Game Theory, An Introduction: Errata
The book is currently in the 3rd printing.
The following Maple and Mathematica worksheets were written to be used with the book. They are offered here with absolutely no warranty.
Maple worksheets for the class:Chaps 1 & 2
I have written a procedure to find the Shapley Value for any N-person Cooperative game given the characteristic function. In addition it gives a systematic way to find the Nucleolus of the game. You may download this worksheet by clicking on Shapley-Nucleolus.
All of the
figures in the book which were created with Maple can be downloaded by clicking
on Figures.
Important game solving links:
1. Gambit –This is a program which will solve any
N-player nonzero sum game. As a particular case, it can solve any zero sum 2 person game by entering the payoffs as a_ij for Player
I and –a_ij for Player II. It is available directly from http://www.gambit-project.org,
by McKelvey, Richard D., McLennan, Andrew M., and Turocy, Theodore L. (2010). Gambit: Software Tools for Game
Theory, Version 0.2010.09.01.
3. The Mathematica package that can solve any characteristic
function cooperative game was written by Professor Holger
Meinhardt and is available from
http://library.wolfram.com/inf
If you are using MatLab, Professor
Meinhardt has a package available which can do the
same thing available at
http://www.mathworks.com/matla
Dr. Barron received his PhD in 1974 in Mathematics from Northwestern University specializing in Partial Differential Equations and Differential Games. In 1972 he received an M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University, and in 1970 he received a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include partial differential equations, calculus of variations, optimal control and differential game theory, stochastic processes, probability theory, mathematical finance, and game theory. He has been the recipient of numerous National Science Foundation grants, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grants, and has been named a Master Teacher in the College of Arts and Sciences.