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Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications

Product ID: 5603
Supplementary Print
High School

The Mathematics of Conflict (HiMAP)

Author: Frank C. Zagare


Students see how decision mathematics can be used to understand conflict and give us a new historical perspective. HiMAP Module 3.

HiMAP library now available on CD-ROM product no. 7593

Table of Contents:

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION

SECTION 2: IDENTIFYING OPTIMAL STRATEGIES

SECTION 3: ZERO-SUM GAMES WITHOUT A SADDLEPOINT

SECTION 4: AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMAL MIXED STRATEGIES

SECTION 5: NONZERO-SUM GAMES

SECTION 6: CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

ANSWERS TO EXERCISES

©1989 by COMAP, Inc.
HiMAP
45 pages

Mathematics Topics:

Discrete & Finite Mathematics

Application Areas:

Social Studies, Negotiation, history

Prerequisites:

Factoring, fractions, elementary probability theory, and mathematical theory of games

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