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About the Course

Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind," game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Beyond what we call `games' in common language, such as chess, poker, soccer, etc., it includes the modeling of conflict among nations, political campaigns, competition among firms, and trading behavior in markets such as the NYSE. How could you begin to model keyword auctions, and peer to peer file-sharing networks, without accounting for the incentives of the people using them? The course will provide the basics: representing games and strategies, the extensive form (which computer scientists call game trees), Bayesian games (modeling things like auctions), repeated and stochastic games, and more. We'll include a variety of examples including classic games and a few applications. You can find a full syllabus and description of the course here: http://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/GTOC-Syllabus.html There is also an advanced follow-up course to this one, for people already familiar with game theory: https://www.coursera.org/learn/gametheory2/ You can find an introductory video here: http://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/Intro_Networks.mp4...

Top reviews

RC

May 8, 2017

The course is generally good. The exercises however are not very well explained. Furthermore, it would be nice to have a pdf from the course in order to be able to study independently.

VM

Jul 3, 2020

The first weeks are very well structured and can be understood, but later on it gets more confused. I don't feel like I understand the cooperative games (weeks 6-8) after this course.

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By Abhishek k t

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Aug 27, 2018

Well structured course for beginner.

By 孙晖

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Nov 5, 2017

I think this course is interesting.

By Jin Y

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Mar 13, 2017

Good structure and useful exercises

By Ivan G

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Oct 25, 2016

Excellent course, very interesting!

By Teng

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Sep 11, 2016

A great course. Beginner friendly.

By Muhammad A

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Aug 18, 2020

Awesome course, It helps me a lot.

By Juan J E L V

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Jul 3, 2020

Best course ever of Game Theory!!!

By Saurabh M

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Mar 31, 2020

Really intriguing course framework

By Bajrang M

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Jan 2, 2024

Learning this course was fabulous

By Utpal S

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Sep 27, 2023

Exceptional course on game theory

By Yifei G

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May 22, 2018

Very informative and interesting.

By Yassine W

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Jan 3, 2018

very instructive and insightful !

By Hao W

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Dec 10, 2017

Nice intro course on game theory.

By Jean-Philippe C

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Sep 3, 2017

Excellent course on game theory !

By Craig P

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May 1, 2017

very informative and interesting.

By Allan A

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Jul 29, 2025

Curso muito bacana, show de bola

By Pradyun A

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Jul 20, 2025

Genuinely such an amazing course

By Michael N

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Aug 15, 2024

the exam format should be harder

By Benjamin L

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May 6, 2021

Very good course. Learned a lot.

By Беляев Д В

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Oct 21, 2020

It´s a very good course! Thanks!

By Diego L

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Apr 12, 2020

It was clear and useful, thanks!

By Saurabh K

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Nov 14, 2019

I learnt lots of things . Thanks

By Ashish G

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Apr 22, 2019

Awesome teachers, great content.

By SantiagoTrujillo

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Aug 5, 2022

enlightening, and fun---

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