Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat.  Seurat’s greatest masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, marked the beginning of this movement when it first made its appearance at an exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants (Salon des Indépendants) in Paris.  Around this time, the peak of France’s modern era emerged and many painters were in search of new methods.  Followers of Neo-Impressionism, in particular, were drawn to modern urban scenes as well as landscapes and seashores.  Science-based interpretation of lines and colors influenced Neo-Impressionists' characterization of their own contemporary art. The Pointillist and Divisionist techniques are often mentioned in this context, because it was the dominant technique in the beginning of the Neo-impressionist movement.  See beautiful pictures and a list of Neo-Impressionists at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-impressionism

Any more and anymore have related meanings, but they’re not interchangeable.  Whether you make anymore one word or two depends on how you’re using it.  Any more refers to quantities  (Would you like any more tea?).  Anymore is an adverb that refers to time  (I don’t like tea anymore.).  https://www.grammarly.com/blog/anymore-vs-any-more/

"Speculation about the past is inefficient.  And therefore irrelevant to achieving your goal."  "Perfect information means that all of a player's past moves—his strategies—are accessible to his opponent."  "I enjoy those games that re-create famous battles, which are almost exclusively of American design.  The Europeans prefer economic and socially productive games, the Asians abstract.  But Americans love their combat."  "In game theory your opponent's personality is irrelevant.  There's even a type of game in which it's understood you can substitute any human being for the other player."  "For all their cleverness and high-definition graphics, computer games can't match the allure of their elegant, three-dimensional forebears."  Edge, a novel by Jeffery Deaver  Acknowledgments:  Strategies on game theory and ideas about rational irrationality come largely from writer John Cassidy and his marvelous (and sobering) book, How Markets Fail.

Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery/crime writer.  He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist.  He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling novelist.  He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Wolfe Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award.  Deaver was born outside Chicago in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and grew up in a creative family. His mother was an artist, and his father an advertising writer.  His sister Julie Reece Deaver is an author of young adult novels.  Deaver was a journalist, folksinger, and attorney.  He lives alone and does a great deal of cooking in all cuisines.  The book that inspired him to write was From Russia With Love, a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming.  Deaver edited The Best American Mystery Stories 2009.  Three of Deaver's novels have been produced into films:  A Maiden's Grave made for TV as film Dead Silence 1997, The Bone Collector released 1999, and The Devil's Teardrop made for TV 2010.  Deaver also created the characters and—in a collaboration with 14 other noted writers—wrote the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript narrated by Alfred Molina that was broadcast on Audible.com from September 25 to November 13, 2007.  It is now also available in print.  See bibliography at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery_Deaver

Game theory is "the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers."  Game theory is mainly used in economics, political science, and psychology, as well as logic, computer science and biology.  Originally, it addressed zero-sum games, in which one person's gains result in losses for the other participants.  Today, game theory applies to a wide range of behavioral relations, and is now an umbrella term for the science of logical decision making in humans, animals, and computers.  Modern game theory began with the idea regarding the existence of mixed-strategy equilibria in two-person zero-sum games and its proof by John von Neumann.  Von Neumann's original proof used the Brouwer fixed-point theorem on continuous mappings into compact convex sets, which became a standard method in game theory and mathematical economics.  His paper was followed by the 1944 book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, co-written with Oskar Morgenstern, which considered cooperative games of several players.  The second edition of this book provided an axiomatic theory of expected utility, which allowed mathematical statisticians and economists to treat decision-making under uncertainty.  This theory was developed extensively in the 1950s by many scholars.  Game theory was later explicitly applied to biology in the 1970s, although similar developments go back at least as far as the 1930s.  Game theory has been widely recognized as an important tool in many fields.  With the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences going to game theorist Jean Tirole in 2014, eleven game-theorists have now won the economics Nobel Prize.  John Maynard Smith was awarded the Crafoord Prize for his application of game theory to biology.  Based on the book by Sylvia Nasar, the life story of game theorist and mathematician John Nash was turned into the biopic A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe.  "Games theory" and "theory of games" are mentioned in the military science fiction novel Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.  In the 1997 film of the same name, the character Carl Jenkins refers to his assignment to military intelligence as to "games and theory."

Read much more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory

a as a first letter  variant of ab- before p and v:  aperient; avert.  variant of ad- 

(1)  before sc, sp, st (ascend) and (2)  in words of French derivation (often with the sense of increase, addition)  variant of an-

before a consonant, meaning “not,” “without”:  amoral; atonal; achromatic. 

prefix  not; without; opposite to:  atonal, asocial; on; in; towards: afoot, abed, aground, aback

used before a present participle  come a-running, go a-hunting; in the condition or state of:  afloat, alive, asleep  http://www.dictionary.com/browse/a- 

ANONYMOUS:  from Late Latin anonymus, from Greek anonymos "without a name,"  http://www.dictionary.com/browse/anonymous

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http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1737  July 14, 2017  On this date in 1789, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille.  On this date in 1874, a fire in Chicago burned down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.  Word of the Day  galette  noun   A type of flat, round cake from France.  Short for Breton galette:  a crêpe or pancake made with buckwheat flour, and often with a savoury filling, originally from Upper Brittany in France.