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John Forbes Nash Jr.
John Forbes Nash Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1928)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2015 · May 23
- Known as
- mathematician, economist, and university teacher. Citizenship: United States
Their story
Who they were
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, he and Louis Nirenberg were awarded the Abel Prize for their contributions to the field of partial differential equations.
Early life
Educated at: Princeton University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, and Bluefield University.
Path and career
Worked with / for: Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and RAND Corporation.
Awards / honours: Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, John von Neumann Theory Prize, Abel Prize, and honorary doctor of the University of Athens.
Why this date
John Forbes Nash Jr. appears on our May 23 calendar for 2015 as a death entry.
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May 23 2015.
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