Mar 10, 2015 04:03 AM
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context...ame-theory
EXCERPT: At first glance, it seems strange to think that math used for describing business competition, fighting terrorists and playing poker would also have anything to do with the origin of life. But you never know. Game theory — the branch of math used for describing strategic interactions — was conceived as a mathematical exercise to explain parlor games. [...] Game theory caught on slowly in economics, but was adopted in other arenas, such as analyzing Cold War strategies. [...] In the 1970s, game theory invaded biology, when George Price and John Maynard Smith showed how with minor adjustments [...it...] could be applied to competition among species for survival. [...] If animals can play games just by virtue of their innate behavior, it’s not really all that great a stretch to imagine that game theory could also apply to biological molecules, as some scientists have noticed. [...] In fact, there’s a very real sense in which chemical reactions are a sort of competition among molecules to reach an arrangement that achieves some optimal state...
EXCERPT: At first glance, it seems strange to think that math used for describing business competition, fighting terrorists and playing poker would also have anything to do with the origin of life. But you never know. Game theory — the branch of math used for describing strategic interactions — was conceived as a mathematical exercise to explain parlor games. [...] Game theory caught on slowly in economics, but was adopted in other arenas, such as analyzing Cold War strategies. [...] In the 1970s, game theory invaded biology, when George Price and John Maynard Smith showed how with minor adjustments [...it...] could be applied to competition among species for survival. [...] If animals can play games just by virtue of their innate behavior, it’s not really all that great a stretch to imagine that game theory could also apply to biological molecules, as some scientists have noticed. [...] In fact, there’s a very real sense in which chemical reactions are a sort of competition among molecules to reach an arrangement that achieves some optimal state...