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'''John Forbes Nash''' (b. 1928) had insights into a branch of mathematics known as [[Game Theory]].  His chief contribution, which he humbly described as his "most trivial," was the [[Nash equilibrium]] that won for him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.<ref>http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm</ref>

'''John Forbes Nash''' (b. 1928) had insights into a branch of mathematics known as [[Game Theory]].  His chief contribution, which he humbly described as his "most trivial," was the [[Nash equilibrium]] that won for him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.<ref>http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm</ref>

His career was popularized by a book by Sylvia Nasar entitled "A Beautiful Mind," and by a movie bearing that same title.

His career was popularized by the book by Sylvia Nasar entitled ''A Beautiful Mind'', and by the movie of the same name.

==References==

==References==

:[http://www.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/ John Nash's personal page at Princeton]

:[http://www.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/ John Nash's personal page at Princeton]

:[http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/Non-Cooperative_Games_Nash.pdf John Nash's doctorial dissertation]

:[http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/Non-Cooperative_Games_Nash.pdf John Nash's doctorial dissertation]

[[Category:Nobel laureates in Economics]]

[[Category:Nobel laureates in Economics]]

[[category:mathematicians]]

[[category:mathematicians]]