Rock, paper, scissors

IVY M. MACALOS

Rock, Paper, Scissors is a pleasingly easy as well as insightful account of key ideas in game theory. Len Fisher gives many examples, several from his own life, of games that post distressing choices for their players. This book started a little bit slowly.

The first chapter of this book which is basically generally defines the Prisoner’s catch and provides the negative insights about the Nash equilibrium in which he said that this is a logical trap. But this negative insights didn’t stop me from reading the other chapters in this book which I become interested on more examples and explanations.

The second chapter of this book was basically, “I cut and you choose”. Quite interesting since it proposed thoughts of just division. The fisher discussed the philosophies of fair division.

The third chapter is mainly about the interesting game theory problems I've read. In this book, the fisher provides a huge summary of that circumstances as the free rider issue and the chicken game.

 The chapter four of the book was nice. Since it was a game, I guess it’s a kind of funny chapter, I mean I’m enjoying it. It is about games of rock, paper and scissor. These three things was played as fact in most of the world. It is so interesting especially when these can be used in encountered resolution.

Chapter five to eight was good. I feel really good when talking about cooperation because these chapter was mainly about cooperation unexpectedly. Cooperation was about how to pursue trust, and convert game to avoid the trap of human selfishness. This shows that cooperation perseveres even in the times of hard challenges.

This book was very wonderful. It shows competitive situations, and that of selfishness shows that if controls why humans make decision. It is very entertaining and very well introduced the science cooperation.