John F. Nash, Jr.Article Free Pass John F. Nash, Jr., in full
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13, 1928, Bluefield, West
Virginia, U.S.), American mathematician who was awarded the 1994
Nobel Prize for Economics for his landmark work, first begun in
the 1950s, on the mathematics of game theory. He shared the
Nobel Prize with the Hungarian American economist John C.
Harsanyi and German mathematician Reinhard Selten. In 1948 Nash
received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from the
Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon
University) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Two years later, at age
22, he completed his doctorate at Princeton University,
publishing his influential thesis “Non-cooperative Games” in the
journal Annals of Mathematics. He joined the faculty of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951 but resigned in
the late 1950s after bouts of mental illness. He then began an
informal association with Princeton. Nash established the
mathematical principles of game theory, a br