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Nature 431, 509-510 (30 September 2004) | doi:10.1038/431509a; Published online 29 September 2004

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Play it again, John

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A look back at the birth of game theory some 60 years ago.

BOOK REVIEWEDTheory of Games and Economic Behavior: Sixtieth-Anniversary Edition

by John von Neumann & & Oskar Morgenstern


Princeton University Press: 2004. 704 pp. $50, £32.50

"Posterity may regard this book as one of the major scientific achievements of the first half of the twentieth century." So began a 1945 review of this book in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.

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