Game theory studies interactive decision-making ... games where the interests of two players were strictly opposed. John Nash treated the more general and realistic case of a mixture of common ...

In the last few decades, game theory—the mathematical study of strategies and decision-making—has shed crucial light on the nature of rational behavior. In 1950, a young Princeton mathematics graduate ...

Companies may use game theory to determine the Nash Equilibrium and see the benefit in their budgeting or pricing strategies. Game theory is the study of how and why players make decisions.

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.

At 30, John Nash suffered his first bout of full-blown ... a permanent ailment that becomes more debilitating over time, a theory first put forward by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin ...

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 ...

John Nash, like so many of the best scientific minds of the late 1940s and 1950s, was drawn into a military think tank based in Santa Monica, California -- the RAND Corporation. Although Nash ...

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 ...