Résumé
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, 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, 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.
Contents
- Press Release--The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Autobiography
- The Game of Hex by John Milnor
- The bargaining problem
- Equilibrium Points in n-Person games
- Non-Cooperative Games Facsimile of Ph.D. Thesis
- Non-Cooperative Games
- Two-Person Cooperative Games
- Parallel Control
- real Algebraic Manifolds
- The Imbedding problem for Riemannian Manifolds
- Continuity of Solutions of Parabolic and Elliptic Equations
L'avis du libraire Eyrolles
On connaît bien grâce au film de Ron Howard, la personnalité excentrique et troublante de John Nash. Mais c'est la première fois qu'un livre présente tous ses plus importants travaux, qui lui ont valu le prix Nobel en 1994.
L'auteur - Sylvia Nasar
Sylvia Nasar est journaliste au New York Times. Ce livre, pour lequel elle a interrogé des centaines de témoins, amis et collègues de John Nash, et consulté des milliers de documents, lui a valu le National Book Critics Circle Award.
L'auteur - Harold W. Kuhn
Harold W. Kuhn is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University. Joint winner of the 1980 von Neumann Prize in Theory, he is internationally known for co-authoring a paper that initiated the theory of "nonlinear programming." Kuhn is the editor or coeditor of several books (all Princeton), including The Essential John Nash, Classics in Game Theory, Linear Inequalities and Related Systems, and Contributions to the Theory of Games, I and II.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Princeton University Press |
| Auteur(s) | Sylvia Nasar, Harold W. Kuhn |
| Parution | 06/12/2002 |
| Nb. de pages | 270 |
| Format | 16 x 23,3 |
| Couverture | Relié |
| Poids | 524g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780691095271 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-691-09527-1 |
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