The Prisoner's Dilemma
Two people can each do better by betraying the other — and end up worse off than if neither of them had.
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Polish-American mathematics and game theory
Melvin Dresher
1911 – 1992
Mathematician at the RAND Corporation, where he worked on the application of game theory to military strategy. With Merrill Flood he devised the two-player game whose structure Albert Tucker later dressed in the story of two prisoners.