FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, FEBRUARY 1993
Copyright © 1992 by William Poundstone
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The quotes from letters of John von Neumann on pp. 22, 65, 75, 140–41, and 180 are from materials in the John von Neumann archives, Library of Congress, and are used with permission of Marina von Neumann Whitman.
The excerpts from “The Mathematician” by John von Neumann on pp. 28–29 are used with permission of the University of Chicago Press. Copyright © 1950.
The quotations from letters of J. D. Williams on pp. 94–95 are used with permission of Evelyn Williams Snow.
The comments on pp. 108–16 are used with permission of Merrill M. Flood.
The quote from the letter on p. 117 is used with permission of Albert Tucker.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Poundstone, William.
Prisoner’s dilemma / William Poundstone.—1st Anchor Books ed.
p. cm.
1. Von Neumann, John, 1903–1957. 2. Mathematicians—United
States—Biography. I. Title.
QA29.V66P68 1993
510′.092—dc20
[B] 92-29903
eISBN: 978-0-307-76378-5
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