@Article{         10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.07.636,
  Author        = "Ben-El-Mechaiekh, Hichem and Dimand, Robert W.",
  Abstract      = "Abstract This note provides an elementary and simpler proof of the Nikaid{\^o}-Sion version of the von Neumann minimax theorem accessible to undergraduate students. The key ingredient is an alternative for quasiconvex/concave functions based on the separation of closed convex sets in finite dimension, a result discussed in a first course in optimization or game theory.",
  date-added    = "2018-05-16 06:04:28 +0000",
  date-modified = "2018-05-16 06:04:28 +0000",
  ISSN          = "00029890, 19300972",
  Journal       = "The American Mathematical Monthly",
  Number        = "7",
  Pages         = "636--641",
  Publisher     = "Mathematical Association of America",
  Title         = "A Simpler Proof of the Von Neumann Minimax Theorem",
  URL           = "http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.07.636",
  Volume        = "118",
  Year          = "2011",
  bdsk-url-1    = "http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.07.636",
  File          = "AMMSimpleMinimax (0) - a - a - h.pdf"
}

@Article{ 10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.07.636, Author = "Ben-El-Mechaiekh, Hichem and Dimand, Robert W.", Abstract = "Abstract This note provides an elementary and simpler proof of the Nikaid{\^o}-Sion version of the von Neumann minimax theorem accessible to undergraduate students. The key ingredient is an alternative for quasiconvex/concave functions based on the separation of closed convex sets in finite dimension, a result discussed in a first course in optimization or game theory.", date-added = "2018-05-16 06:04:28 +0000", date-modified = "2018-05-16 06:04:28 +0000", ISSN = "00029890, 19300972", Journal = "The American Mathematical Monthly", Number = "7", Pages = "636--641", Publisher = "Mathematical Association of America", Title = "A Simpler Proof of the Von Neumann Minimax Theorem", URL = "http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.07.636", Volume = "118", Year = "2011", bdsk-url-1 = "http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.07.636", File = "AMMSimpleMinimax (0) - a - a - h.pdf" }

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