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John F. Nash Jr.'s Letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1957)
"There is general phenomenon, affecting mathematics and physics, of evolutionary elegantizing camou­f­lage"
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Jørgen Veisdal
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 Birth of AI (1956)
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was an academic workshop sometimes considered to be the founding moment for artificial…
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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
John F. Nash's Work in Pure Mathematics
It’s fair to say that John F.
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Jørgen Veisdal
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
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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