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Nash's Invention of Non-Cooperative Game Theory (1949-50)
"The entire edifice of game theory rests on two theorems: von Neumann’s min-max theorem of 1928 and Nash’s equilibrium theorem of 1950" - Nasar (1998)
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Jørgen Veisdal
The von Neumann-Morgenstern Collaboration (1938-43)
“It will be a strange essay for economists, but it can be important. Very.”
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The Beautiful Life of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr (1928-2015). was born in Bluefield, West Virginia in 1928. He died in a car crash in New Jersey on the 23rd of May…
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Jørgen Veisdal
The Best Books on: The History of Game Theory
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Jørgen Veisdal
The Median Voter Theorem (1948)
In public choice economics, the median voter theorem states that “In a majority rule voting system, the candidate/party most preferred by the median…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Nash's Bargaining Problem (1950)
Just before John Nash made his breakthrough discovery of the Nash equilibrium, he wrote his first paper on another problem later to be known as Nash’s…
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Jørgen Veisdal
Can We Survive Technology? — John von Neumann (1955)
“Present awful possibilities of nuclear warfare may give way to others even more awful. After global climate control becomes possible, perhaps all our…
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John F. Nash Jr.'s Game of "Hex" (1949)
“Oh, by the way, what was it that they were playing?” asked von Neumann. “Nash,” answered Tucker, allowing the corners of his mouth to turn up ever so…
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The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
By the time of his death in 1957 at the modest age of 53, the Hungarian polymath had not only revolutionized several subfields of mathematics and…
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Jørgen Veisdal
John von Neumann’s Minimax Theorem (1928)
“As far as I can see, there could be no theory of games … without that theorem … I thought there was nothing worth publishing until the Minimax Theorem…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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