Avinash Dixit, John J. F. Sherrerd '52 ... Dixit explains game theory and its impact on situations we encounter every day. "If Nash got a dollar for every time someone wrote or said 'Nash ...

The economics committee first encountered John Nash's name in the mid-1980s. At that point game theory, the area where Nash did his Nobel-winning work, was as hot as any in the field of economics.

In the last few decades, game theory—the mathematical study of strategies and decision-making—has shed crucial light on the nature of rational behavior. In 1950, a young Princeton mathematics graduate ...

It’s one of Lloyd Shapley’s quotes “A beautiful mind” that became the title of the famed book, and later film, about mathematician John ... game himself alongside a few friends, including Nash, called ...