References for lesson 3: Existence of Nash equilibria
Border, Kim [1985]: Fixed Point Theorems with Applications to Economics
and Game Theory, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
Good reference for fixed points and their applications in game theory and economics
Dunford, Nelson, and Jacob T. Schwartz [1958]:Linear operators, Interscience, New York (NY).
A classical reference for functional analysis and measure theory
Glicksberg, Irving L. [1952]: A Further Generalization of the Kakutani
Fixed Point Theorem with Application to Nash Equilibrium Points,
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 3, 170-174.
Extension of Nash's theorem to the case of infinite sets of pure strategies (spaces with compact sets of pure strategies and continuous payoffs)
Kakutani, Shizuo [1941]: A Generalization of Brouwer's Fixed Point
Theorem, Duke Math. J., 8, 457-458.
The fixed point theorem used for the proof of existence for Nash equilibria (for mixed extensions of finite games)
Klein, Erwin and Anthony C. Thompson [1984]: Theory of correspondences,
Wiley, New York.
A good reference for correspondences and topologies on ``hyperspaces'' (sets of subsets of a topological space). With applications to game theory and mathematical economics
Osborne, Martin and Ariel Rubinstein [1994]: A course in Game Theory, MIT
Press, Cambridge (MA).
A very good general reference.