In 1950, a young Princeton mathematics graduate student named John Nash published a two-page note in PNAS and his idea, the Nash equilibrium, has become the cornerstone of game theory (1). The Nash ...
F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University, is John Nash's colleague and friend. He has taught economics courses on games of strategy, and written books on the ...
When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography A Beautiful Mind, the basis of ...
John Nash at Novel Prize Ceremony ... When the committee asked a young researcher, Ariel Rubinstein, to report on the most promising Nobel candidates in game theory, Nash's name topped the ...