Essential John Nash

Name: Essential John Nash
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ISBN: 9780691096100

ISBN-10: 0691096104

ISBN-13: 9780691096100

Edition: 2001

Authors: John Nash, Harold William Kuhn, Sylvia Nasar

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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…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.012

Sylvia Nasar is an economic correspondent for the New York Times. She was born in Germany and earned her master's degree in Economics from NYU in 1976. She is an economist and author who is best known for her nonfiction book, A Beautiful Mind. The book is a biography of mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr. Nasar's book details Nash's rise, decline into mental illness, recovery, and winning of the Nobel Prize for Economics.



Preface



Introduction




Press Release-The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences



Autobiography


Photo Essay


Editors Introduction to Chapter 3



The Game of Hex



Editor's Introduction to Chapter 4



The Bargaining Problem


Editor's Introduction to Chapters 5, 6, and 7



Equilibrium Points in n-Person Games



Non-Cooperative Games Facsimile of Ph.D. Thesis



Non-Cooperative Games



Two-Person Cooperative Games


Editor's Introduction to Chapter 9


Parallel Control



Real Algebraic Manifolds



The Imbedding Problem for Riemannian Manifolds


Author's Note to "The Imbedding Problem for Riemonnian Manifolds



Continuity of Solutions of Parabolic and Elliptic Equations


Afterword


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