Name: The Essential John Nash
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Author: Sylvia Nasar
ISBN: 9780691096100

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Nash

Illustrated by

Sylvia Nasar

Harold William Kuhn

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6x15.3x1.6 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN

0691096104

ISBN13

9780691096100

Synopsis "The Essential John Nash "

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.

Sylvia Nasar

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Sylvia Nasar (born on August 17, 1947 in Rosenheim, Bavaria) is an American journalist and author, known for her biography A Beautiful Mind, which chronicles the life of mathematician and economist John Forbes Nash Jr. This book earned her the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

Nasar grew up in Germany and Turkey, and earned her bachelor's degree in literature from Antioch College in 1970. She later pursued a master's degree in economics at New York University (NYU), where she worked for four years with Nobel laureate Wassily Leontief. Her journalistic career began at Fortune, and she was an economic correspondent for The New York Times from 1991 to 1999

In 2001, Nasar was named the first Knight Chair in Business Journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism. In 2011, she published Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, a work that explores the history of economic thought and how economists have influenced the improvement of human living conditions

In addition to her literary achievements, Nasar has been recognized with honorary doctorates from DePaul University and Niagara University, and has been a fellow at the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation

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