John Forbes Nash - Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1994
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John Forbes Nash

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1994
for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games
Together with: John Harsanyi, Reinhard Selten
Citizenship
United StatesUnited States
Languages
English
date of birth
6/13/1928
place of birth
Bluefield
date of death
5/23/2015
place of death
Monroe Township
Lived
86 years

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occupation
  • university teacher
  • mathematician
  • economist
field of work
  • differential geometry
  • mathematics
  • game theory
  • economics
educated at
  • Princeton University
    • academic degree: Doctor
    • start time: 1948
    • end time: 1950
  • Bluefield University
    • start time: 1941
    • end time: 1945
  • Carnegie Institute of Technology
    • academic degree: Bachelor of Science
    • academic degree: Master of Science
    • academic major: mathematics
    • start time: 1945
    • end time: 1948
employer
  • Princeton University
    • start time: 1995
    • end time: 2015
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • start time: 1952
    • end time: 1959
  • RAND Corporation
    • start time: 1950
    • end time: 1954
member of
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1990
  • Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1996
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1995
  • American Mathematical Society
    • start time: 11/1/2012
  • American Philosophical Society
  • European Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2007
doctoral student
  • Seth Patinkin
notable work
  • Nash embedding theorem
  • Nash blowing-up
  • Nash–Kuiper theorem
  • Nash equilibrium
  • Hilbert's nineteenth problem
  • Nash-Williams theorem
  • Nash functions
  • Nash–Moser theorem
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