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John Nash

American mathematician
Also known as: John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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John Nash (born June 13, 1928, Bluefield, West Virginia, U.S.—died May 23, 2015, near Monroe Township, New Jersey) was an American mathematician who was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics for his landmark work, first begun in the 1950s, on the mathematics of game theory. He shared the prize with John C. Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten. In 2015, Nash won (with Louis Nirenberg) the Abel Prize for his contributions to the study of partial...

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