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John Forbes Nash is a reluctant celebrity. The arclights are on him and he looks old and weary in the glare. Just this month, at least three Nobel laureates have visited India. Two of the three — all equally accomplished and distinguished in global academic circles — have landed and left without much ado or fanfare. But Nash is the chosen darling of the media.
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John Forbes Nash is a renowned mathematician, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1994 as a result of the dissertation he produced in 1950 at the age of 21 for his PhD degree from Princeton University. This 27-page effort would come to be known as the Nash Equilibrium for non-cooperative games, a seminal and tremendously impacting work that, together with his other solution concepts such as the Nash Bargaining Solution and the Nash Programme, would come to be credited as a cornerstone of modern economics and an influence on areas as diverse as global trade negotiations, antitrust cases, national labor relations, and even breakthroughs in evolutionary biology.
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Doug - 18Mar2002 - Those who call John Forbes Nash "anti-Semitic" obviously have not read Nasar's book. When you hear someone say "Nash is an anti-Semite," be sure to ask them if they read A Beautiful Mind. During his illness, Nash was against everything, even attempting to discard his US citizenship on multiple occasions. He was against his wife, his concubine, his legitimate son, his illegitimate son, his alma mater, his friends, his peers, politicians, authority, employers, Harvard, Princeton,..., virtually everything and everyone. Doug - 18Mar2002.
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John Forbes Nash was born in 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia. Having received his BS and MS from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie Mellon University), he went on to study at Princeton for his doctorate. While he was there he wrote his thesis "Non Cooperative Games" and received his doctorate. His accomplishments included inadvertently proving Brouwers fixed point theorem and inventing a topological game called "Nash".
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In 1978 John Forbes Nash was awarded the John Von Neumann Theory Prize for his invention of non-cooperative equilibria, now called Nash equilibria. He won the Leroy P Steele Prize in 1999.
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Publishers Weekly : Nasar has written a notable biography of mathematical genius John Forbes Nash (b. 1928), a founder of game theory, a RAND Cold War strategist and winner of a 1994 Nobel Prize in economics. She charts his plunge into paranoid schizophrenia beginning at age 30 and his spontaneous recovery in the early 1990s after decades of torment. He attributes his remission to will power; he stopped taking antipsychotic drugs in 1970 but underwent a half-dozen involuntary hospitalizations. Born in West Virginia, the flamboyant mathematical wizard rubbed elbows at Princeton and MIT with Einstein, John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener. He compartmentalized his secret personal life, shows Nasar, hiding his homosexual affairs with colleagues from his mistress, a nurse who bore him a son out of wedlock, while he ... courted Alicia Larde, an MIT physics student whom he married in 1957.
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