List of game theorists

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This is a list of notable economists, mathematicians, political scientists, and computer scientists whose work has added substantially to the field of game theory.

• Derek Abbott - Quantum game theory and Parrondo's games
• Robert Aumann - equilibrium theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005)
• Kenneth Arrow - voting theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972)
• Robert Axelrod - repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
• Steven Brams - cake cutting, fair division, theory of moves
• John Horton Conway - combinatorial game theory
• John Harsanyi - equilibrium theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
• Rufus Isaacs - differential games
• John Maynard Smith - Evolutionary biology
• William Hamilton - Evolutionary biology
• László Mérő - rationality, combinatorial games
• Oskar Morgenstern - Social organization
• John Forbes Nash - Nash equilibrium (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
• John von Neumann - Minmax theorem, Expected Utility, Social organization, arms race
• J. M. R. Parrondo - games with a reversal of fortune, such as Parrondo's games
• Charles E. M. Pearce - games applied to queuing theory
• George R. Price - theoretical and evolutionary biology
• Anatol Rapoport - Mathematical psychologist, early proponent of tit-for-tat in repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
• Ariel Rubinstein - Bargaining theory, learning and language
• Reinhard Selten - Bounded rationality (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
• Lloyd Shapley - Shapley value and core concept in coalition games
• Thomas Schelling - bargaining (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005)

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