TY - BOOK AU - Saul Stahl TI - A Gentle Introduction to Game Theory SN - 9780821891827 U1 - 519.3 STA CY - Hyderabad KW - Mathematics N2 - The mathematical theory of games was first developed as a model for situations of conflict, whether actual or recreational. It gained widespread recognition when it was applied to the theoretical study of economics by von Neumann and Morgenstern in Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in the 1940s ER -