List of game theorists
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. This is a list of notable economists, mathematicians, political scientists, and computer scientists whose work has added substantially to the field of game theory. For a list of people in the field of video games rather than game theory, please see list of ludologists.
- Derek Abbott - Quantum game theory and Parrondo's games
- Robert Aumann - equilibrium theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005)
- Kenneth Arrow - voting theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972)
- Robert Axelrod - repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
- Steven Brams - cake cutting, fair division, theory of moves
- John Horton Conway - combinatorial game theory
- William Hamilton - Evolutionary biology
- John Harsanyi - equilibrium theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
- Peter L. Hurd - Evolution of aggressive behavior
- Rufus Isaacs - differential games
- John Maynard Smith - Evolutionary biology
- Oskar Morgenstern - Social organization
- John Forbes Nash - Nash equilibrium (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
- John von Neumann - Minimax theorem, Expected Utility, Social organization, arms race
- J. M. R. Parrondo - games with a reversal of fortune, such as Parrondo's games
- Charles E. M. Pearce - games applied to queuing theory
- George R. Price - theoretical and evolutionary biology
- Anatol Rapoport - Mathematical psychologist, early proponent of tit-for-tat in repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
- Alvin E. Roth - Market design (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012)
- Ariel Rubinstein - Bargaining theory, learning and language
- Reinhard Selten - Bounded rationality (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
- Lloyd Shapley - Shapley value and core concept in coalition games (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012)
- Thomas Schelling - bargaining (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005) and Models of Segregation.
