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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ba?ar, Tamer.
Dynamic noncooperative game theory / Tamer Ba?ar, Geert Jan
Olsder. -- 2nd ed.
p. cm. -- (Classics in applied mathematics ; 23)
Revised from the 2nd ed. published in 1995 by Academic Press, New
York.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-89871-429-X (softcover)

1. Differential games. 2. Noncooperative games (Mathematics)
I. Olsder, Geert Jan. II. Title. III. Series.
QA272.B37 1998
519.3--dc21 98-46719

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To

Tang l, G zen, and Elif (T.B.)
and
Elke, Rena, Theda, and Kike (G.J.O.)

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