John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician and economist. Serving as Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University during the later part of his life, he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.

Photo of Freeman Dyson with John Nash in Rome for 2008 Festival della Matematica event

John Forbes Nash, Jr. (June 13, 1928 - May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the forces that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life. His theories are used in market economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, politics and military theory. Serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University during the latter part of his life, he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.

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Participants of the Second International Conference on Game Theory and Management GMT2008

Participants of the Second International Conference on Game Theory and Management GTM2008

Nikolay Zenrevich and John Nash on The Second International Conference on Game Theory and Management GTM2008