Ron Howard has no right to change the history of Game Theory

Rating: 1/10 (24 January 2002)

This movie is a premium example of hollywood taking a wonderful real life story, changing it altogether to make it edible for the general public and coming up with a movie full of lies. As just a movie, I can see some people will find it interesting. But the movie presents rubbish about Economics and Nash and, of course, game theory. Nash didn't invent game theory as the movie kind of tried to portray. He came up with a notion of equilibrium whoich is simply brilliant and he more than deserves the Nobel. I think coming up with the equilibrium notion is more of a contribution than iventing game theory. But of course they had to change it to make it sexy enough. The movie is full of lies like this. I understand that most people will not enjoy the movie as much if it were truthful. Nevertheless, that doesn't change the fact that the movie lied about game theory. I think it was awful