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John Forbes Nash, Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015), known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations.
Learn about the life and achievements of John F. Nash Jr., the mathematician who developed the theory of non-cooperative games and won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994. Read his biographical sketch, from his birth in West Virginia to his academic career at Princeton, Carnegie, and M.I.T.
John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose long descent into severe mental illness and ...
May 19, 2024 · John Nash (born June 13, 1928, Bluefield, West Virginia, U.S.—died May 23, 2015, near Monroe Township, New Jersey) was an American mathematician who was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics for his landmark work, first begun in the 1950s, on the mathematics of game theory.
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2015. John Nash Jr., a legendary fixture of Princeton University’s Department of Mathematics renowned for his breakthrough work in mathematics and game theory as well as for his struggle with mental illness, died with his wife, Alicia, in an automobile accident May 23 in Monroe Township, New Jersey. He was 86, she was 82.
Nov 16, 2023 · Learn about the life and achievements of John F. Nash Jr., the American mathematician who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on game theory. Find out how he struggled with mental illness and died in a car crash in 2015.
May 23, 2015 · John F. Nash Jr. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994. Born: 13 June 1928, Bluefield, WV, USA. Died: 23 May 2015, New Jersey, NJ, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
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