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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

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.

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!

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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 Saffan N

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

By Loo W M

Nov 25, 2016

Lecturer not conversant with subject.

By ank j

Jan 13, 2021

good but needs more example practice

By Faya M F A

Jan 12, 2021

Somehow I only understand from Matt.

By Hồng Á Đ

Sep 15, 2021

It's harder than my expectation.

By ROHIT S

Sep 21, 2021

Not very hard to pass it.

By Jingxin Z

Oct 19, 2018

a little bit confusing

By NIKHIL K

Mar 25, 2017

For a beginner, it is a fair start but definitely many things could have been better. The course does cover the main subject concepts in fair amount of depth and with decent rigor. The course videos are sometimes kind of less engaging. Many a times I felt my interest waning off. Many a times, the mathematical equations looked daunting. I think more focus should be put on including more number of real world examples and solving them within the videos.

Also, the concept of three Professors for one course was hard to digest, which led to the whole course feeling discontinuous and disconnected at several instances.

By Pablo E

Mar 27, 2018

The course could be more didactic. I miss many more examples, exercises and complementary readings to the videos. The videos are not always easy to understand. The games could be explained better and the teachings that can be drawn from them are not usually commented. It is a very interesting subject in which I would like to come back into the case that there were more suitable materials. Thank you very much for offering this course.