According to the paper, the design relies on a "pure strategy Nash Equilibrium." That refers to a game theory concept attributed to the Princeton University-educated mathematician John Nash ...

In 1950, a young Princeton mathematics graduate student named John Nash published a two-page note in PNAS and his idea, the Nash equilibrium, has become the cornerstone of game theory (1). The Nash ...

Mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., who inspired the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’ which chronicled the Nobel Prize winner’s struggle with schizophrenia, was killed in a crash on the New Jersey ...

John Nash at Novel Prize Ceremony ... Weibull remembered first meeting Nash, noting that the mathematician looked extremely nervous and was unable to look his visitor in the eye.

John Nash, like so many of the best scientific ... the institution would have a profound effect on the mathematician who for many years carried within him its culture of secrecy, paranoia ...

John Nash is best known for his contributions to game theory, but he will also be remembered for his pioneering work in geometry. The Nobel Prize winning mathematician made lasting contributions ...