The big match

Ivar Ekeland ()
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Ivar Ekeland: the University of Paris-Dauphine

Nature, 1998, vol. 393, issue 6684, 411-413

Abstract: One of the oldest problems in game theory, known as 'the big match', can be told as the story of a king who traps his minister into working for him unsupervised. The minister is promised a life in the dungeon if he is caught idling, or the throne if he is 'caught' working. It has now been proved that ideal strategies for both king and minister can be found in all such problems. These new models of conflict and cooperation will undoubtedly be used in the study of social interactions and economics.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/30842

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