differences
An introduction to game theory and A course in game theory cover much of the same material, using the same definitions and notation. Here are some differences between the books.
- An introduction to game theory contains extended examples of Nash equilibrium.
- An introduction to game theory contains a separate chapter on Bayesian games.
- An introduction to game theory contains a separate chapter on evolutionary equilibrium.
- The material on maxminimization in An introduction to game theory is treated separately from Nash equilibrium, in its own chapter.
- In the definition of a Bayesian game in An introduction to game theory, each player's belief about the states after receiving her signal, rather than her prior belief, is taken as a primitive (so that the need to use Bayes' Rule is avoided).
- In An introduction to game theory, the primitive in the definition of an extensive game with perfect information is the set of terminal histories, rather than the set of all histories.
- An introduction to game theory contains no material on correlated equilibrium, knowledge, complexity considerations in repeated games, or implementation theory.