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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Game Theory by Stanford University

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About the Course

Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind," game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Beyond what we call `games' in common language, such as chess, poker, soccer, etc., it includes the modeling of conflict among nations, political campaigns, competition among firms, and trading behavior in markets such as the NYSE. How could you begin to model keyword auctions, and peer to peer file-sharing networks, without accounting for the incentives of the people using them? The course will provide the basics: representing games and strategies, the extensive form (which computer scientists call game trees), Bayesian games (modeling things like auctions), repeated and stochastic games, and more. We'll include a variety of examples including classic games and a few applications. You can find a full syllabus and description of the course here: http://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/GTOC-Syllabus.html There is also an advanced follow-up course to this one, for people already familiar with game theory: https://www.coursera.org/learn/gametheory2/ You can find an introductory video here: http://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/Intro_Networks.mp4...

Top reviews

WY

May 16, 2017

Great ! Interesting and abound at the same time. Hope Professors will clarify the strategic utility function more clearly because it's hard for students with poor math basic(forget most><) right now!

SC

Feb 7, 2022

I would have preferred a more mathematically rigorous treatment of the subject. Nevertheless, this was a great course — the instructors expounded all concepts with exceptional clarity and engagement.

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By Salman M

Nov 1, 2022

week 6, 7 and 8 had poor lectures and lack of information compared to the previous ones, which made it hardder to deal with the tests in those weeks

By Narayan R

Aug 16, 2020

Mathew was fair. Kevin was good. Yoav was not at all comprehensible. His videos were very painful to understand.

Could have had better examples.

By Łukasz W

Dec 17, 2016

The course is very interesting and challenging but there are mistakes in the videos and too much mathematical theory with relation to examples.

By Patid

Jun 25, 2020

There are very few examples and sample of calculation cause make it so hard to understand the lesson (especially in week6,7 ).

By Nithya N

Dec 19, 2016

The examples are getting very abstract. It is getting difficult to understand the concepts with the examples explained.

By Simone P

Dec 20, 2022

Nice as introduction to the subject, but not much mathematical deep presentation. Only one proof in the entire course.

By Vladimir F

Mar 27, 2018

Not all explanations were clear to me, for example the core and Shapley value I took additional materials from web.

By Piyush R

Aug 29, 2016

The games needs to be explained in sufficient details. In addition, after a point in time, it became too technical.

By Zhiheng

Sep 27, 2016

The topic and the class content itself are good, but the introduction is too brief. Hope they can add more stuff!

By Staffan

Mar 15, 2023

The video quality is extremely bad and that for me personally is distracting me on focusing on the content.

By Josh K

Jun 2, 2017

Not enough application to remain interesting throughout - disconnect between calculus and concepts.

By Ignacio B

Nov 2, 2019

Some clases are not fluid and concepts could be explained in a clearer way.

By Tiago A M

Dec 5, 2016

I think it would be more easy to understand the concepts with more examples

By Mike L

Jan 12, 2021

The lectures do not give enough examples.

Some lectures are hard to follow.

By Aniruddha M

Apr 5, 2020

Doesn't engage the students much. Typical monotonous lectures.

By Abdul W M

Apr 25, 2020

The course could have been designed better instructionally

By 赵祺

Jun 7, 2017

视频correction的地方太多,有些知识点没有b描述得hen'qing很清晰,整体课程质量中上

By Omer F O

Apr 20, 2023

They are lack of solving questions and practices

By Muhammad S

Dec 3, 2020

More examples should be covered during lectures

By Abhishek

Apr 13, 2020

More reading resources could have been provided

By Jennifer

Nov 23, 2019

useful information. The math was over my head

By Arsh S

Aug 6, 2022

Mathematical concepts are not explained well.

By paridhi m

Dec 18, 2020

explanation of topics could have been better

By Elihu S

Nov 21, 2016

tricky concepts and long equations yet fun

By Raphael T

Jan 6, 2019

quite slack, it lacks scientific rigor