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John Forbes Nash Jr.
American mathematician (1928–2015)
John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015), known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations.[1][2] Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. In 2015, he and Louis Nirenberg were awarded the Abel Prize for their contributions to the field of partial differential equations.
As a graduate student in the Princeton University Department of Mathematics, Nash introduced a number of concepts (including Nash equilibrium and the Nash bargaining solution) which are now considered central to game theory and its applications in various sciences. In the 1950s, Nash discovered and proved the Nash embedding theorems by solving a system of nonlinear partial differential equations arising in Riemannian geometry. This work, also introducing a preliminary form of the Nash–Moser theorem
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John David Stier is the son of Eleanor Stier and John Nash, born in 1953. John David has a troubled childhood, since Nash—who was unmarried to his mother and was not listed as his father on his birth certificate—is frequently absent from his life, and Eleanor struggles to find employment. John David is shuttled between foster homes, some abusive, before returning to live with Eleanor as a teenager. He later becomes a registered nurse, much to the disappointment of his father, who hoped that he would become a scientist. Nash and John David reunite later in Nash’s life, during Nash’s remission from schizophrenia. Throughout A Beautiful Mind, John David often expresses his resentment of Nash, who was a distant and uncaring father during his childhood, though he also acknowledges that their relationship improved after Nash’s recovery.
John David Stier Quotes in A Beautiful Mind
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Personal life of John Nash
Early life
John Forbes Nash Jr. was born in Bluefields, West Virginia in 1928, the son of John Forbes Nash Sr. worked, an electrical engineer for the Appalachian Electric Power Company, and Margaret Virginia (née Martin), who had been a schoolteacher before she married. In 1930, he got sister named Martha.
During his final year in high school, Nash also took mathematical courses at a local community college. Having been awarded a full scholarship, he proceeded to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, where he earned a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics.
Princeton
After graduating in 1948, the 19-year-old Nash was accepted to both Harvard and Princeton for his graduate studies in mathematics, and chose Princeton where he attended as a John S. Kennedy fellowship recipient.
In 1950, he earned his Ph. D. degree with a dissertation on non-cooperative games. It is is this dissertation that we find his groundbreaking work on the definition and properties of the Nash equilibrium.
MIT
After working at Princeton, Nash accepted a position as C.L.E.
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