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Knowledge, Games and Tales from the East

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Logic and Its Applications (ICLA 2009)

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We introduce some basic concepts from Game Theory and related areas and show how various insights for which we thank game theory have already occurred in the past in some tales from ancient literature, both Indian and otherwise.

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  1. Brooklyn College of CUNY and CUNY Graduate Center, USA

    Rohit Parikh

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  1. Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, 600113, Chennai, India

    R. Ramanujam

  2. National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, 560012, Bangalore, India

    Sundar Sarukkai

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Parikh, R. (2008). Knowledge, Games and Tales from the East. In: Ramanujam, R., Sarukkai, S. (eds) Logic and Its Applications. ICLA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5378. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92701-3_5

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