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Add MS 86597A
- Record Id:
- 040-000375076
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000375067
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000177.0x000320
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 86597A
- Title:
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Letters on games
- Scope & Content:
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This file originally contained the sub-folder titled 'Antlers' (Add MS 86597B).
Loose items comprising correspondence of Maynard Smith and Dr G. Wagner, including equations and workings out; 1983. Signed.
- Letter from Wagner to Maynard Smith; 6 Oct 1983.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Wagner; 19 Oct 1983.
Folder entitled 'The Cyclic Game' "Sex War"'. Holds correspondence of Maynard Smith and Josef Hofbauer, Vienna; 1980, undated. Includes workings out and equations, partly handwritten and partly photocopies:
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Hofbauer; 1980?
- Letter from Hofbauer to Maynard Smith; 14 Aug 1980.
- Notes on 'Basic Equations'.
Folder entitled 'Notes on game theory J. Maynard Smith'.
- Letter to Joan Fisher Box from Peter G. Martin; 14 Jan 1980. Photocopy.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Wes Burgess (University of California); 19 Nov 1979. Handwritten with printed graphs.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Roy L. Caldwell (University of California); 12 Oct 1979. Signed.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from John [Manning?]; 2 Jun 1978. Handwritten.
- Letter to Geoff Parker (Department of Zoology, University of Liverpool) from Maynard Smith; 7 Dec 1979. Photocopy.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Geoff Parker; 10 Dec 1979. Handwritten.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Michael Reiss (Trinity College, Cambridge); undated. Handwritten. Thank you note from Maynard Smith to Michael Reiss; 10 Jul 1980. Typewritten.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Susan Riechert (Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Tennessee); 15 May 1980. Typewritten, includes some equations.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Peter (Queen Elizabeth College); 25 Sep 1979. Handwritten.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Robert (Ruhr Universität Abteilung für Biologie, West Germany); 17 Sep 1979.
- Handwritten notes relating to fights, including diagrams. Hyatt, Maynard Smith and Raghavan, manuscript attached to a handwritten copy of a letter from Maynard Smith to Gary [Hyatt]; 9 Aug undated.
- Handwritten notes on chimps. Not in Maynard Smith's hand.
- Handwritten notes relating to Ilan Eshel, ‘Selection on sex-ratio and the evolution of sex determination’, Heredity, 34 (1975), 351-61.
- Handwritten notes relating to University of British Columbia XVI International Ethological Conference.
- Handwritten notes relating to articles by Caldwell and Dingle (1979), Perrill et al. (1978) and references to articles by M. Marmirani and G. Foster; 1978.
- Handwritten notes on an article by Dour, Ewing and Sutherland, 'Studies on the behaviour of cyprinodont fish III.' Behaviour, 59 (1976), 252-68.
- Handwritten notes on an article by Alocock, Jones and Buchmann, 'Male mating strategies in the bee Centris Pallida Fox Anthophoridae: Hymenoptera', American Naturalist, 111 (1977), 145-55.
- Handwritten notes on Dawkins and Bruckner, 'Do Digger wasps commit the concorde fallacy?'.
- Handwritten notes on an article by T.J. Palmer, 'A horned beetle which fights', Nature, 274 (1978) 583-84.
- Handwritten notes on an article by Riechert. 'Games spiders play: Behavioral variability in territorial disputes', Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 3 (1978), 135-62.
- Notes including references and workings out.
- Notes on R.R. Baker, Journal of American Ecology, 41 (1972) 453-69.
- Handwritten notes on Balph on winter flocking.
- Handwritten notes on the sex ratio.
Loose items:
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Morton D. Davis, City College, New York; 24 Sep 1978. Signed.
- Letter from Ilan Eshel (Department of Mathematics, Stanford University) to Maynard Smith; 4 Nov 1980.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Eshel; 11 Nov 1980.
- Letter from Eshel to Maynard Smith; 21 Nov 1980. Handwritten post script.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Eshel; 3 Dec undated.
- Letter from Eshel to Maynard Smith; 16 Dec 1980. Handwritten postscript.
- Letter from Peter Hammerstein relating to ESS; 17 Mar 1981. Signed with annotated manuscript attached.
- Letter from Josef Hofbauer to Maynard Smith; 18 Dec 1980.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Josef Hofbauer; 12 Mar 1981. Photocopy.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from John Riley (Boston College, Massachusetts); 1 Feb 1979. Handwritten.
- Letter to Riley from Maynard Smith relating to Selten's (Department of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld) theorem; 22 Feb 1979. Photocopy. Attached is John G. Riley, 'Strong evolutionary equilibrium and the war of attrition'. Working paper 92, first draft. Working Papers in Economics, (Boston College, 1979).
- Letter to Dr Schuster from Maynard Smith; 22 Feb undated. Photocopy.
- Letter to Steve Smale from Maynard Smith; 3 Aug 1979. Typewritten.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Peter D. Taylor (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queens University, Canada); 10 Apr 1979.
- Letter to Michel Treisman from Maynard Smith; Nov undated. Photocopy.
- Treisman, Michel, ‘The evolutionary restriction of aggression within a species: a game theory analysis’, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 16 (1977), 167-203.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from an unidentified correspondent (possibly W.G.S. Hines), University of Guelph; 23 Apr 1979.
- Photocopied notes relating to a theorem, not in Maynard Smith's handwriting.
Folder entitled 'Zeeman on ESS's'.
- Letter from Zeeman to Maynard Smith; 3 Aug 1978;
- Letter from Zeeman to Maynard Smith; 1 Sep 1978.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Zeeman; 17 Sep undated.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Zeeman; undated.
- Handwritten notes and diagrams.
- Zeeman, E. C. 1979. 'Dynamics of the evolution of animal conflicts' Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000375067
036-000375071
040-000375076 - Is part of:
- Add MS 86569-86840 : John Maynard Smith Archive
Add MS 86597-86830 : Subject files
Add MS 86597A : Letters on games - Hierarchy:
- 032-000375067[0003]/036-000375071[0001]/040-000375076
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 86569-86840
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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3 sub-folders and 18 loose items approximately
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1970
- End Date:
- 1983
- Date Range:
- 1970-1983
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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