The economics committee first encountered John Nash's name in the mid-1980s. At that point game theory, the area where Nash did his Nobel-winning work, was as hot as any in the field of economics.

"If Nash got a dollar for every time someone wrote ... Game theory got its start with the work of John von Neumann in the 1920s, which culminated in his book with Oskar Morgenstern.

John Nash, like so many of the best scientific minds ... U.S. military leaders recruited the best scientific minds from academia to work projects from developing the A-bomb in the deserts of ...

They contain reversals of fortune, moments of recognition, and, ultimately, a catharsis. Dr. John Nash's life — his early brilliance, his struggle with mental illness, and his slow, willful ...

The political backdrop to John Nash's paranoid and geopolitical hauntings included the Cold War, fought not only with spies and bombers stationed abroad, but by FBI agents, demagogue senators ...

Since its beginnings, the prize category has been heavily dominated by Americans or by foreign scholars working in the U.S., including, in 1994, John Nash. Meet the Nobel laureates in economics ...

At 30, John Nash suffered his first bout of full-blown schizophrenia, a disease sometimes called the "cancer of the mind." Aolicai Nash, his wife, was 26 at the time. "I wanted to help him," she ...