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About the Course

Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind," game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Beyond what we call `games' in common language, such as chess, poker, soccer, etc., it includes the modeling of conflict among nations, political campaigns, competition among firms, and trading behavior in markets such as the NYSE. How could you begin to model keyword auctions, and peer to peer file-sharing networks, without accounting for the incentives of the people using them? The course will provide the basics: representing games and strategies, the extensive form (which computer scientists call game trees), Bayesian games (modeling things like auctions), repeated and stochastic games, and more. We'll include a variety of examples including classic games and a few applications. You can find a full syllabus and description of the course here: http://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/GTOC-Syllabus.html There is also an advanced follow-up course to this one, for people already familiar with game theory: https://www.coursera.org/learn/gametheory2/ You can find an introductory video here: http://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/Intro_Networks.mp4...

Top reviews

VM

Jul 3, 2020

The first weeks are very well structured and can be understood, but later on it gets more confused. I don't feel like I understand the cooperative games (weeks 6-8) after this course.

RC

May 8, 2017

The course is generally good. The exercises however are not very well explained. Furthermore, it would be nice to have a pdf from the course in order to be able to study independently.

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By Akshit G

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Aug 28, 2020

Exceptional, tough to crack

By Leqi W

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Aug 25, 2017

Good explanations overall.

By Jai S V

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Jul 14, 2017

Insightful & Quantitative

By Nikhil Y

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May 26, 2020

very persistent course!!

By Oguzhan O

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Apr 22, 2020

Thanks for the efforts

By Soufiane R

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Jul 10, 2022

Thank you at all...

By Ishita N

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Sep 11, 2021

great explainations

By Hedy W

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Jun 14, 2017

Easy to understand.

By Sam D E

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Jul 6, 2022

Whole lot of logic

By Surya R

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Nov 9, 2017

More coding please

By Subham S

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Sep 1, 2017

awesome experience

By Nothing N

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Aug 19, 2024

pretty W course

By Antariksha M

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Sep 8, 2019

Great Learning

By Sarotree P

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Mar 10, 2018

good content

By Marcela

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Sep 29, 2017

Good course.

By Peter Z

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Feb 15, 2017

Good Course

By Jukka A

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Nov 30, 2021

I enjoyed!

By Zsa S

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Jul 30, 2025

enjoyable

By sabino g

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Jan 16, 2025

very good

By Risky A R

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Sep 2, 2024

mantapppp

By Vandana B

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Jul 30, 2021

Xperience

By 1089

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Sep 24, 2016

Not bad!

By Juan C

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Sep 30, 2019

Great

By 李怡

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Jul 12, 2017

烧脑，

By amadie g

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Sep 20, 2021

ok