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The life and work of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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This essay draws on A Beautiful Mind, The Essential John Nash, and various articles and lectures …For the descriptions of Nash’s contributions to mathematics, I borrowed heavily from pieces by Avinash Dixit, Barry Nalebuff, Harold Kuhn, Eric Maskin, John Milnor, Roger Myerson, Al Roth and Ariel Rubinstein. All errors, of course, are mine.
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Nasar, S. (2019). John Nash, His Life. In: Holden, H., Piene, R. (eds) The Abel Prize 2013-2017. The Abel Prize. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99028-6_17
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