The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994
Awarded on: 1994-10-11
"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
Affiliations:
- Princeton University – Princeton, NJ, USA
John F. Nash Jr.
Born: 1928-06-13 in Bluefield, WV, USA
Gender: male
Field: American mathematician (1928–2015)
Biography
John Forbes Nash Jr., known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. In 2015, Louis Nirenberg and he were awarded the Abel Prize for their contributions to the field of partial differential equations.