John nash nobel prize winner
How old was john nash when he received the nobel prize.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was an Americanmathematician who worked in game theory and differential geometry.[1][2] He was born in Bluefield, West Virginia.
John nash nobel prize winner
He shared the 1994 Memorial Prize in Economics with two other game theorists, Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.
Early life
[change | change source]Nash was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia.
He studied at Princeton University and at Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Career
[change | change source]The winner of a Westinghouse scholarship, he attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he received both his bachelor's degree and his master's degree in 1948.
From Pittsburgh he went to Princeton University where he worked on his equilibrium theory.
John nash
He received a Ph.D. in 1950 with a dissertation on non-cooperative games. The thesis, which was written under the supervision of Albert W. Tucker, contained the definition and