John F. Nash Jr.

Thinkers1928 to 2015Mathematician

Works

  • Equilibrium Points in N-Person Games, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 36(1), 1950

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An American mathematician who defined the equilibrium that bears his name: a set of strategies, one per player, in which no player can do better by changing strategy alone. He proved that every finite game has at least one such equilibrium, in mixed strategies if not in pure ones.

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