List of game theorists
This is a list of notable biologists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, and computer scientists whose work has added substantially to the field of game theory.
A
- Derek Abbott – quantum game theory and Parrondo's games
- Susanne Albers – algorithmic game theory and algorithm analysis
- Kenneth Arrow – voting theory
- Robert Aumann – equilibrium theory
- Robert Axelrod – repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
B
- Tamer Başar – dynamic game theory and application robust control of systems with uncertainty
- Cristina Bicchieri – epistemology of game theory
- Olga Bondareva – Bondareva–Shapley theorem
- Steven Brams – cake cutting, fair division, theory of moves
C
- Jennifer Tour Chayes – algorithmic game theory and auction algorithms
- John Horton Conway – combinatorial game theory
- Antoine Augustin Cournot – monopoly and oligopoly games
F
- Drew Fudenberg – repeated games and reputation effects
H
- W.D. Hamilton – evolutionary game theory
- John Harsanyi – equilibrium theory
- Monika Henzinger – algorithmic game theory and information retrieval
- John Hicks – general equilibrium theory
- Naira Hovakimyan – differential games and adaptive control
- Peter L. Hurd – evolution of aggressive behavior
I
K
- Ehud Kalai – Kalai–Smorodinsky bargaining solution, rational learning, strategic complexity
- Anna Karlin – algorithmic game theory and online algorithms
- Michael Kearns – algorithmic game theory and computational social science
- Sarit Kraus – non-monotonic reasoning
M
- John Maynard Smith – evolutionary game theory
- Oskar Morgenstern – social organization
- Roger Myerson – mechanism design
N
- John F Nash – Nash equilibrium
- John Von Neumann – Minimax theorem, expected utility, social organization, arms race
- Abraham Neyman – Stochastic games, Shapley value
P
- Geoff Parker - evolutionary game theory
- 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 – evolutionary game theory
- Anatol Rapoport – Mathematical psychologist, early proponent of tit-for-tat in repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
R
- Julia Robinson – proved that fictitious play dynamics converges to the mixed strategy Nash equilibrium in two-player zero-sum games
- Alvin E. Roth – market design
- Ariel Rubinstein – bargaining theory, learning and language
S
- Thomas Jerome Schaefer – computational complexity of perfect-information games
- Suzanne Scotchmer – patent law incentive models
- Reinhard Selten – bounded rationality
- Claude Shannon – studied cryptography and chess; sometimes called "the father of information theory"
- Lloyd Shapley – Shapley value and core concept in coalition games
- Eilon Solan – Stochastic games, stopping games
- Thomas Schelling – bargaining and models of segregation
T
V
W
- Myrna Wooders – coalition theory