Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Reinhard Selten
Born: October 5, 1930
Died: August 23, 2016 (aged 85)
Bio: Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten is a German economist, who won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Known for:
- Game theory and economic behaviour (1999)
- Models of strategic rationality (1988)
- Rational Interaction (1992)
- Game Equilibrium Models IV (1991)