Game Theory

🇺🇸Robert Axelrod

Science

1949–2019

"The two-person iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma is the E. coli of the social sciences, allowing a very large variety of studies to be undertaken in a common framework."

🇺🇸Thomas Schelling

Economics

1921–2016

"The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger."

🇬🇷Yanis Varoufakis

Economics

b. 1961

"While bringing about radical change is never easy, it is now abundantly clear that everything could be different. There is no longer any reason why we should accept things as they are."

🇬🇧John Horton Conway

Mathematics

1937–2020

"... I have said for twenty-five or thirty years that the one thing I would really like to know before I die is why the monster group exists."

🇭🇺John Harsanyi

Economics

1920–2000

"If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare."

🇺🇸John Nash (artist)

Art

1928–2015

"The artist's main business is to train his eye to see,then to probe and then to train his hand to work in sympathy with his eye. I have a habit of looking, and really seeing."

🇩🇪Reinhard Selten

Mathematics

1930–2016

"Reinhard Selten at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive"