Games, Best Responses, and Nash Equilibrium
The first notebook in the Game Theory stream. We meet games in normal form and some of their components: payoff matrices, dominance, best responses, and pure Nash…
16 Jul 2026
This section contains the Game Theory stream, a four-notebook sequence on games, strategies, and learning. Notebook 1 introduces normal-form games, best responses, and Nash equilibrium, Notebook 2 adds mixed strategies and fictitious play, Notebook 3 turns to repeated games and the Axelrod tournament, and Notebook 4 lets Q-learning agents play a pricing game on their own and rediscover collusion. The notebooks are meant to be read in order.