The Essential John Nash (eBook)

John Nash (Autor)

Harold W. Kuhn, Sylvia Nasar (Herausgeber)

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2016
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8408-7 (ISBN)

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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 is 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 is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at Columbia University.

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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 in 1949. From 1959 until his astonishing remission three decades later, the man behind the concepts "e;Nash equilibrium"e; and "e;Nash bargaining"e;--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 "e;like lightning striking."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.6.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 7 halftones. 46 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: absolute value • Addition • Algebraic function • Algebraic manifold • Alicia Nash • Analytic manifold • Approximation • A priori estimate • Asymptote • Avinash Dixit • Axiom • axiomatic system • Bargaining Problem • Big O notation • Brouwer fixed-point theorem • combination • Comparability • Computation • conjecture • continuous function • Cooperative Game • counterexample • David Gale • Derivative • differentiable manifold • Dimension • Elimination theory • Embedding • Equation • Equilibrium Point • Ernst Zermelo • estimation • Euclidean space • existence theorem • existential quantification • Freeman Dyson • Function problem • fundamental solution • hilbert space • Homeomorphism • Hugo Steinhaus • idealization • Implicit function • Intrinsic metric • John Harsanyi • John Milnor • John von Neumann • Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions • Kenneth Arrow • Linearity • Lloyd Shapley • Louis Nirenberg • manifold • mathematician • Mathematics • Maximum principle • Michael Artin • minimax theorem • Monotonic Function • Nash Equilibrium • Naturalness (physics) • nonlinear system • Open problem • Open set • Oscar Zariski • Oskar Morgenstern • Parameter • partial derivative • partial differential equation • Paul Cohen • Permutation • Peter Sarnak • polynomial • Probability • Pure Mathematics • Quantity • real number • Reinhard Selten • Requirement • result • resultant • Riemannian manifold • Simultaneity • Simultaneous Equations • smoothing • solution concept • Special case • Strategy (game theory) • Subset • Summation • Surreal number • Tensor • Theorem • theory • Third derivative • transcendence degree • uniqueness • uniqueness theorem • Unit function • Utility
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8408-X / 140088408X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8408-7 / 9781400884087