{"product_id":"the-essential-john-nash","title":"The Essential John Nash","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 Nasars celebrated biography A Beautiful Mind  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 Nashs diverse contributions not only to game theory  for which he received the Nobel  but to pure mathematics--from Riemannian geometry and partial differential equations--in which he commands even greater acclaim among academics. Included are nine of Nashs 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 Nashs 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 Nashs career from his student days in Princeton to the present. Also included are Nashs Nobel citation and autobiography.  The Essential John Nash makes it plain why one of Nashs colleagues termed his style of intellectual inquiry as \"like lightning striking.\" All those inspired by Nashs dazzling ideas will welcome this unprecedented opportunity to trace these ideas back to the exceptional mind they came from.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44957491855413,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691095272","price":35.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691095271.jpg?v=1770328508","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-essential-john-nash","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}