Works
- Extensive Games and the Problem of Information, in Harold W. Kuhn and Albert W. Tucker, eds., Contributions to the Theory of Games II, Princeton University Press, 1953
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Known for
A mathematician who shaped game theory and optimization. His 1953 paper gave the general form of games played in sequence, the extensive form with information sets, and proved that every finite game of perfect information has an equilibrium in pure strategies, which backward induction finds.