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The Essential John Nash by John F. Nash & Harold William Kuhn & Sylvia Nasar is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 a new major motion picture, has revealed the man. The Essential John Nash reveals his work--in his own words. This book presents, for the first time, the full range of Nash's diverse contributions not only to game theory, for which he received the Nobel, but to pure mathematics -- from Riemannian geometry and partial differential equations -- in which he commands even greater acclaim among academics. Included are nine of Nash's most influential papers, most of them written over the decade beginning in 1949. From 1959 until his astonishing remission three decades later, the man behind the concepts "Nash equilibrium" and "Nash bargaining" -- concepts that today pervade not only economics but nuclear strategy and contract talks in major league sports -- had lived in the shadow of a condition diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia. In the introduction to this book, Nasar recounts how Nash had, by the age of thirty, gone from being a wunderkind at Princeton and a rising mathematical star at MI

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
John F. Nash & Harold William Kuhn & Sylvia Nasar
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780691096100
Category
science
Subjects
Mathematics, Memoir, Economics
Rating
3.91 / 5 (59 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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