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1 Smith’s Hand--Searching for the Code of Nature (11-26)
2 Von Neumann’s Games--Game theory’s origins (27-50)
3 Nash’s Equilibrium--Game theory’s foundation (51-72)
4 Smith’s Strategies--Evolution, altruism, and cooperation (73-92)
5 Freud’s Dream--Games and the brain (93-109)
6 Seldon’s Solution--Game theory, culture, and human nature (110-125)
7 Quetelet’s Statistics and Maxwell’s Molecules--Statistics and society, statistics and physics (126-143)
8 Bacon’s Links--Networks, society, and games (144-163)
9 Asimov’s Vision--Psychohistory, or sociophysics? (164-181)
10 Meyer’s Penny--Quantum fun and games (182-196)
11 Pascal’s Wager--Games, probability, information, and ignorance (197-216)
Appendix--Calculating a Nash Equilibrium (225-229)