Etymology

Parthasarathy's theorem

Today it means: A generalization of Von Neumann's minimax theorem, stating that a particular class of games has a mixed value, provided that at least one of the players has a strategy restricted to absolutely continuous distributions with respect to the Lebesgue measure (i.e. one of the players is forbidden to use a pure strategy). Full definition →

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Attributed to Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy.

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