Explore how backward induction helps solve game theory problems by working from the end backward to determine optimal actions. Learn with practical examples.

A resurgence of violence along the Thai-Cambodia border, including Thai airstrikes on targets in Cambodia on Monday, comes less than two months after the signing of a peace agreement between the ...

President Trump and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met in the White House and largely avoided criticizing each other, despite trading barbs for the last few months. Photo: Yuri ...

A group of math teachers in Tucson, Arizona, came under fire for their Halloween costumes this weekend. The teachers’ bloodied white t-shirts with the phrase “Problem solved” written across the chest ...

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...

New DNA and ballistics testing have linked a serial killer to the 1991 "Yogurt Shop Murders," solving a case that has haunted Austin, Texas, for more than three decades. During a news conference on ...

Investigators believe they finally have solved the infamous and gruesome 1991 killings of four teenage girls inside an Austin frozen yogurt shop, known as “The Yogurt Shop Murders,” after 34 years. On ...

AUSTIN, Texas — More than three decades after four teen girls were found dead inside a burned-down yogurt shop in North Austin, investigators say they finally know who killed them. Law enforcement ...

President Trump claimed he has ended seven wars during a news conference in the United Kingdom. Since taking office, the U.S. has been involved in five ceasefires or peace agreements, though not all ...

In the summer of 1976, a man collecting moss found partial human remains in the woods about a mile south of U.S. 20 in rural Linn County. The woman had worn a leather coat with fringe, a belt adorned ...

When four mothers in Southern California finally had their kids in school full-time, they didn’t look to fill their hours with Pilates or pickleball. They decided to investigate a murder. In the new ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. It’s not that anyone ever said ...