A Beautiful Mind

John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations.[2][3] Nash's work has provided insight into the factors that govern chance and decision-making inside complex systems found in everyday life.

 

John Forbes Nash Jr.

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Nash in 2006

Born

June 13, 1928

Bluefield, West Virginia, U.S.

Died

May 23, 2015 (aged 86)

Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, U.S.

Education

Carnegie Institute of Technology B.S and M.S.

Princeton University Ph.D.

Known for

Nash equilibrium

Nash embedding theorem

Nash functions

Nash–Moser theorem

Hilbert's nineteenth problem

Spouse(s)

Alicia Lardé López-Harrison

 

(m. 1957; div. 1963)

(m. 2001; d. 2015)

Children

2[1]

Awards

John von Neumann Theory Prize (1978)

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994)

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1996)

Abel Prize (2015)

Scientific career

Fields

Mathematics

Cryptography

Economics

Institutions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Princeton University

Thesis

Non-Cooperative Games (1950)

Doctoral advisor

Albert W. Tucker

His theories are widely used in economics. Serving as a senior research mathematician at Princeton University during the later part of his life, he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. In 2015, he also shared the Abel Prize with Louis Nirenberg for his work on nonlinear partial differential equations. John Nash is the only person to be awarded both the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the Abel Prize.

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