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The Essential John Nash

The Essential John Nash

MathematicsScience
Pages
244
Published
2001
Language
English

Synopsis

This book gathers the most influential papers by John Nash, a Nobel laureate renowned for his contributions to game theory and pure mathematics. It offers a comprehensive look at his diverse work, including nine key papers written over a decade starting in 1949. The collection highlights the depth and breadth of Nash's academic achievements, which are highly regarded among scholars.

Prose complexity
10/10

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Genres

Mathematics Science

Authors

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Harold W. Kuhn

Harold W. Kuhn was a mathematician known for his work in game theory. He is best recognized for editing The Essential John Nash, a collection of important papers by the Nobel laureate.

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Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar is an Uzbek German-born American journalist. She is best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., A Beautiful Mind, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. [--Wikipedia](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Nasar) Photo Attribution: Knight Foundation, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons