John Forbes Nash

John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13, 1928), is an American mathematician and economist who works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations, serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University. He shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. He is credited as being a key influence in the genesis of the economic ideas underlying neoliberalism and the globalisation of the financial aystem.

Nash is also the subject of the Hollywood movie, A Beautiful Mind, which was nominated for eight Oscars (winning four), and was based on the biography of the same name about him, his mathematical genius and his struggle with schizophrenia.

Affiliations

RAND Corporation

Resources

• Wikipedia John Forbes Nash
• Wikipedia The Trap
• "A Brilliant Madness" - a PBS American Experience documentary
• John Nash speaks out about alleged omissions in film - Guardian Unlimited
• John Nash and "A Beautiful Mind" Written by John Milnor as a reaction to the book A Beautiful MindTemplate:Ndash not the movieTemplate:Ndash and mostly focusing on his mathematical achievements.
• Template:Cite episode
• Department of Economics - News
• John F. Nash presented in Freedom section
• Penn State's The 2003-2004 John M. Chemerda Lectures in Science: Dr. John F. Nash, Jr.
• video: Ariel Rubinstein's Lecture: "John Nash, Beautiful Mind and Game Theory"
• Lecture of John Forbes Nash at the Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, 2005
• Nash Equilibrium 2002 article in Slate magazine by Robin Wright, speculating on links between Nash's theoretical work and his delusions
• Video, enclosed in a book, of the meeting with Ennio De Giorgi, Trento, Italy, 1996

External links

• Autobiography at the Nobel Prize website
• Nash's home page at Princeton
• IDEAS/RePEc
• Nash FAQ from Princeton's Mudd Library, including a copy of his dissertation in PDF format
• Video of Dr. Sylvia Nasar narrating the story of John Nash at MIT
• Beautiful mind, unconventional matter, a 2001 Daily Princetonian interview