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Hamilton

Ian Hamilton, the British general who commanded the Entente forces at Gallipoli.

The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene

Explained in

• The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene
• Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Ken Binmore

  William Hamilton, British biologist of the twentieth century. His rule explains when it pays an animal to sacrifice itself for its relatives.

• Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope, Johann Hari

  Max Hamilton, a British psychiatrist. In 1959 he devised a scale for rating how severe depression is, which drug trials still use today.

• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

  William Hamilton (1936 to 2000), a British evolutionary biologist who in 1964 described mathematically how kinship explains self-sacrifice in animals.

• A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell

  Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, the country's first Secretary of the Treasury and one of the authors of The Federalist. He was fatally wounded in a duel in 1804.

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