Nash / Kuhn / Nasar The Essential John Nash

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-8408-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nash, John

Kuhn, Harold W.

Nasar, Sylvia

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Operations Research Spieltheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Differentialrechnungen und -gleichungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.