Dresher was the author of several RAND research papers on game theory, and his widely acclaimed The Mathematics of Games of Strategy: Theory and Applications (originally published in 1961 as Games of Strategy: Theory and Applications) continues to be read today. Dresher's research has been referred to and discussed in a variety of published books, including Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone and A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar.[3]
Family
Dresher married Martha Whitaker (m. 1937) and is survived by his daughter Olivia Dresher (b. 1945)[4] and son Paul Dresher (b. 1951).
Berge, Claude; Dresher, Melvin, eds. (1970). Contributions to the theory of games. 3: C. Berge ... Ed. by M. Dresher. Annals of mathematics studies (4. print ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Pr. ISBN978-0-691-07936-3.
Dresher, Melvin (1981). The mathematics of games of strategy: theory and applications (unabridged republ. of the [ed.] ... Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1961 ed.). New York: Dover. ISBN978-0-486-64216-1.
Dresher, M.; Aumann, R. J., eds. (1985). Advances in game theory. Annals of mathematics studies (Repr. from the hardcover ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN978-0-691-07902-8.
Dresher, Melvin (2007). Games of strategy: theory and applications (New RAND ed.). Santa Monica, Calif: RAND Corp. ISBN978-0-8330-4225-5.
References
Obituary, July 2, 1992 issue of the Palisadian-Post newspaper (Pacific Palisades, California).
"In Remembrance", July 9, 1992 issue of RAND Items (a biweekly publication for employees of RAND).
^Kuhn, Steven (2019), Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), "Prisoner's Dilemma", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2023-12-23