This book is based on my Ph.D. thesis (by the same title), which I wrote at the University of California, Berkeley, with the wise guidance of Christos Papadimitriou.
In hindsight, it seems only natural that I ended up working on the complexity of Nash equilibrium, a problem that has been so closely associated with Christos for three decades. But the true story of how I came to work on equilibrium computation is completely different. During my first winter break at Berkeley, Abe Othman contacted me1 and asked about the complexity of finding
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