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Isaacs was born on June 11, 1914, in New York City. [1] He worked for the RAND Corporation from 1948 until winter 1954/1955. His investigation stemmed from classic pursuit–evasion type zero-sum dynamic two-player games such as the Princess and monster game. In 1942, he married Rose Bicov, and they had two daughters.
The problem was proposed by Rufus Isaacs in a 1951 report [2] for the RAND Corporation, and in the book Differential Games. [3] The homicidal chauffeur problem is a classic example of a differential game played in continuous time in a continuous state space.
In the study of competition, differential games have been employed since a 1925 article by Charles F. Roos. [4] The first to study the formal theory of differential games was Rufus Isaacs, publishing a text-book treatment in 1965. [5] One of the first games analyzed was the 'homicidal chauffeur game'.
The award is named after Rufus Isaacs [2]., widely recognized as the founding father of differential games, whose pioneering work laid the foundation for modern dynamic game theory. Rufus Isaacs' groundbreaking contributions, particularly his 1965 book "Differential Games," [3] established core principles and methodologies that have profoundly ...
Isaacs was a former non-executive director at sports betting firm DraftKings, which in 2021 walked away from its $22 billion buyout bid for Entain to focus on its core U.S. market.
It has been found that the viscosity solution is the natural solution concept to use in many applications of PDE's, including for example first order equations arising in dynamic programming (the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation), differential games (the Hamilton–Jacobi–Isaacs equation) or front evolution problems, [1] [2] as well as ...
In the continuous formulation of pursuit–evasion games, the environment is modeled geometrically, typically taking the form of the Euclidean plane or another manifold. Variants of the game may impose maneuverability constraints on the players, such as a limited range of speed or acceleration. Obstacles may also be used.
For this simple system, the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman partial differential equation is (,) + {(,) (,) + (,)} =subject to the terminal condition (,) = (),As before, the unknown scalar function (,) in the above partial differential equation is the Bellman value function, which represents the cost incurred from starting in state at time and controlling the system optimally from then until time .