John Forbes Nash

John Forbes Nash Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician who works in game theory and differential geometry. He shared the 1994 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences with two other game theorists, Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.

Career

He currently holds an appointment in mathematics at Princeton. While cautious with people he does not know, insiders cite a dry sense of humor.

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His wife Alicia would divorce him some time after his illness manifested itself. She took him back

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after he won the Nobel prize, and remarried him, immediately after the filming of the Beautiful Mind.

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Recognition

In 1978 Nash was awarded the John Von Neumann Theory Prize for his invention of non-cooperative equilibriums, now called Nash equilibria.

Related Topics:
1978 - John Von Neumann Theory Prize - Nash equilibria

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In 1994 he received the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel as a result of his game theory work at Princeton as a graduate student.

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Between 1945 and 1996, Nash published a total of twenty-three scientific studies.

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1945 - 1996

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