Chris Cannings: A Life in Games

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Chris Cannings was one of the pioneers of evolutionary game theory. His early work was inspired by the formulations of John Maynard Smith, Geoff Parker and Geoff Price; Chris recognized the need for a strong mathematical foundation both to validate stated results and to give a basis for extensions of the models. He was responsible for fundamental results on matrix games, as well as much of the theory of the important war of attrition game, patterns of evolutionarily stable strategies, multiplayer games and games on networks. In this paper we describe his work, key insights and their influence on research by others in this increasingly important field. Chris made substantial contributions to other areas such as population genetics and segregation analysis, but it was to games that he always returned. This review is written by three of his students from different stages of his career.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Bishop, DT https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8752-8785 Broom, M Southwell, R
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© The Author(s) 2019. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Keywords:	Evolutionary games; Evolutionarily stable strategy; War of attrition; Multiplayer games; Games on graphs
Dates:	Accepted: 29 November 2019 Published (online): 22 December 2019 Published: September 2020
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	14 Feb 2020 14:13
Last Modified:	06 Oct 2020 14:22
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
Identification Number:	10.1007/s13235-019-00343-x
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:157056

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