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John Forbes Nash

1928–2015

John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015) was a brilliant but troubled mathematician and economist whose work in game theory revolutionized economics, earning him the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. His life, marked by a decades-long struggle with paranoid schizophrenia, was a testament to the interplay of genius and mental illness, culminating in a remarkable recovery that allowed him to return to academia. Nash is best known for the Nash equilibrium, a foundational concept in game theory that analyzes strategic decision-making.

Economics

Non-Cooperative Games (1950)
The Bargaining Problem (1950)
Two-Person Cooperative Games (1953)
Equilibrium Points in N-Person Games (1950)
Real Algebraic Manifolds (1952)
The Imbedding Problem for Riemannian Manifolds (1956)
Continuity of Solutions of Parabolic and Elliptic Equations (1958)
Nobel Lecture: The Work of John Nash in Game Theory (1994)
The Essential John Nash (2002, collection of papers)
Interview with John Nash (1994, Nobel Foundation)

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