Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
Office Hours for Spring 2010: 8:30-10 TTh or by appointment.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
317 Damen Hall
phone: (773) 508-3575
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Classes for Spring 2010
These classes are accessed through www.blackboard.luc.edu. You get on to Blackboard using your Loyola userid and Password.
GAME THEORY BOOK AND SOFTWARE
Text: Game Theory, An Introduction, by E.N.Barron, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008. Buy from AMAZON.COM
All errors will be available by clicking here Game Theory, An Introduction: Errata
The replaced pages in the book with the corrected errors are available by clicking
All Errors as of November 10, 2009.
The following Maple 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.
Dr. Barron
received his PhD in 1974 in Mathematics from