Although this man never won the Putnam competition, he did write the book Real Algebraic Manifolds, and was inspired by the work of von Neumann and Morganstern.
Although this man never won the Putnam competition, he did write the book Real Algebraic Manifolds, and was inspired by the work of von Neumann and Morganstern. Winning a fellowship to Princeton allowed him to write his thesis, "Non-Cooperative Games," which described his namesake equilibrium, for which he won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. For ten points, name this schizophrenic mathematician and subject of Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind, played on the screen by Russell Crowe.
Although this man never won the Putnam competition, he did write the book Real Algebraic Manifolds, and was inspired by the work of von Neumann and Morganstern.
John Forbes {Nash}, Jr.