The Essential John Nash

John Nash (Autor)

Harold William Kuhn, Sylvia Nasar (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2001
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-09527-1 (ISBN)

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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. This book presents a range of Nash's contributions not only to game theory, for which he received the Nobel, but to pure mathematics - from Riemannian geometry and partial differential equations.

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 MIT to the depths of mental illness.In his preface, Harold Kuhn offers personal insights on his longtime friend and colleague; and in introductions to several of Nash's papers, he provides scholarly context. In an afterword, Nash describes his current work, and he discusses an error in one of his papers. A photo essay chronicles Nash's career from his student days in Princeton to the present. Also included are Nash's Nobel citation and autobiography. "The Essential John Nash" makes it plain why one of Nash's colleagues termed his style of intellectual inquiry as 'like lightning striking'. All those inspired by Nash's dazzling ideas will welcome this unprecedented opportunity to trace these ideas back to the exceptional mind they came from.

Harold W. Kuhn is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University. Winner of the 1980 von Neumann Prize in Theory, he is the editor of several books (all Princeton), including Classics in Game Theory, Linear Inequalities and Related Systems, Contributions to the Theory of Games, I and II, and the author of Lectures on the Theory of Games (forthcoming, Princeton). Sylvia Nasar tells the story of Nash's life in A Beautiful Mind (Simon & Schuster), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A former economics reporter for the New York Times, she was recently named the John and Jean Knight Professor of Journalism at Columbia University.

PREFACE by Harold W. Kuhn vii INTRODUCTION by Sylvia Nasar xi Chapter 1: Press Release--The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1 Chapter 2: Autobiography 5 Photo Essay 13 Editor's introduction to Chapter 3 29 Chapter 3: The Game of Hex by John Milnor 31 Editor's Introduction to Chapter 4 35 Chapter 4: The bargaining problem 37 Editor's Introduction to Chapters 5, 6, and 7 47 Chapter 5: Equilibrium Points in n-Person games 49 Chapter 6: Non-Cooperative Games Facsimile of Ph.D. Thesis 51 Chapter 7: Non-Cooperative Games 85 Chapter 8: Two-Person Coooperative Games 99 Editor's Introduction to Chapter 9 115 Chapter 9: Parallel Control 117 Chapter 10: real Algebraic Manifolds 127 Chapter 11: The Imbedding problem for Riemannian Manifolds 151 Chapter 12: Continuity of Solutions of Parabolic and Elliptic Equations 211 AFTERWORD 241 SOURCES 243

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.12.2001
Zusatzinfo	7 halftones. 46 line illus.
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-691-09527-2 / 0691095272
ISBN-13	978-0-691-09527-1 / 9780691095271
Zustand	Neuware