We spent part of May 2025 reading Ken Binmore's Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2007). It is a 176-page book that has no business covering as much ground as it does. It is also the book that gave us the excuse to work out a Nash equilibrium calculation for a Shadowrun run, which we have been wanting to do for a while.

Full notes on the wiki: Game Theory - A Very Short Introduction.

Why This Book

Game theory has a reputation for being either trivial (rock-paper- scissors and Prisoner's Dilemma) or impenetrable (Von Neumann's Theory of Games and …