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| complete name: |
John Nash, Jr |
| nobel prize: |
economics |
| award year: |
1994 |
| together with: |
Reinhard Selten |
| together with: |
John Harsanyi |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994 was awarded jointly to John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr. and Reinhard Selten "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| given name: |
John |
| family name: |
Nash |
| occupation: |
mathematician |
| occupation: |
economist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| field of work: |
mathematics |
| field of work: |
economics |
| field of work: |
game theory |
| field of work: |
differential geometry |
| field of work: |
partial differential equation |
| work location: |
Princeton University, 1 Nassau Hall, Princeton, NJ, 08544-0070, United States of America |
| description: |
John Nash, Jr was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations. Nash's work has provided insight into the factors that govern chance and decision making inside complex systems found in daily life. His theories are used in economics. Serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University during the latter part of his life, he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. In 2015, he also shared the Abel Prize with Louis Nirenberg for his work on nonlinear partial differential equations. In 1959, Nash began showing clear signs of mental illness, and spent several years at psychiatric hospitals being treated for paranoid schizophrenia. After 1970, his condition slowly improved, allowing him to return to academic work by the mid-1980s. His struggles with his illness and his recovery became the basis for Sylvia Nasar's biography, A Beautiful Mind, as well as a film of the same name starring Russell Crowe. On May 23, 2015, Nash and his wife, Alicia Nash, were killed in a car crash while riding in a taxi on the New Jersey Turnpike. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1994/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1928 |
| date death: |
2015 |
| usual name: |
John Nash |
