The Essential John Nash
By: edited by Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar
Contributors: Harold William Kuhn (Editor); Sylvia Nasar (Editor)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 19, 2001
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780691095271
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Biography: general; Economics; Game Theory; Social Scientists & Psychologists; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Scientists - General; Biography/Autobiography; Riemannian manifolds; Econometrics; Mathematics / Advanced; Political Science and International Relations; Reference Works and Anthologies; Mathematics
First sentence: Game theory emanates from studies of games such as chess or poker.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Harold W. Kuhn; title: Introduction / Sylvia Nasar; title: 1. Press release : The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; title: 2. Autobiography; title: Photo essay; title: Editor's introduction to chapter 3; title: 3. The game of hex / John Milnor; title: Editor's introduction to chapter 4; title: 4. The bargaining problem / John F. Nash, Jr.; title: Editor's introduction to chapters 5,6, and 7; title: 5. Equilibrium points in n-person games / John F. Nash, Jr.; title: 6. Non-cooperative games (facsimile of Ph. D. thesis) / John F. Nash, Jr.; title: 7. Non-cooperative games / John F. Nash, Jr.; title: 8. Two-person cooperative games / John F. Nash, Jr.; title: Editor's introduction to chapter 9; title: 9. Parallel control / John F. Nash, Jr.; title: 10. Real algebraic manifolds / John F. Nash, Jr.; title: 11. The imbedding problem for Riemannian manifolds / John F. Nash, Jr.; title: Author's note to "The Imbedding Problem for Riemannian Manifolds"; title: 12. Continuity of solutions of parabolic and elliptic equations / John F. Nash, Jr; title: Afterword / John F. Nash, Jr.