John nash
John Forbes Nash Jr. Introduction
John Forbes Nash Jr. was born on June 13th of 1928. He has greatly impacted today’s society with his works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. His theories are used in many aspects of our lives today such as in economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, politics and in military theory. Within his lifetime Nash has received several prestigious awards. In 1978 he was awarded the John Von Neumann Theory Prize. In 1994 he and his coworkers Reinhard Selton and John Harsanyi were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and he was also awarded the Abel Prize in 2015 for his work on non linear partial differential equations. John Forbes Nash Jr. was born in Bluefield, West Virginia in 1928 to his father John Forbes Nash, an electrical engineer for the Appalachian Electric Power Company, and his mother Margaret Virginia Martin, known as “Virginia”, who was a school teacher. Nash has one younger sister named Martha. Nash had a very advanced, education filled childhood learning to read and play piano before the age of three. He attended public school and both his parents and grandparents were very influential in his education. During high school, Nash took advanced mathematics and chemistry at a community college and later was accepted into the chemical engineering program with a full scholarship from the George Westinghouse Scholarship Foundation. During this Brafford 2
time, Nash first studied chemical engineering, then studied chemistry and later found his
calling in the field of mathematics. After graduating in 1948 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology he had both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in mathematics. He was then accepted to both Harvard and Princeton but decided on Princeton after the chairman of the
John Forbes Nash Jr. was born on June 13th of 1928. He has greatly impacted today’s society with his works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. His theories are used in many aspects of our lives today such as in economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, politics and in military theory. Within his lifetime Nash has received several prestigious awards. In 1978 he was awarded the John Von Neumann Theory Prize. In 1994 he and his coworkers Reinhard Selton and John Harsanyi were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and he was also awarded the Abel Prize in 2015 for his work on non linear partial differential equations. John Forbes Nash Jr. was born in Bluefield, West Virginia in 1928 to his father John Forbes Nash, an electrical engineer for the Appalachian Electric Power Company, and his mother Margaret Virginia Martin, known as “Virginia”, who was a school teacher. Nash has one younger sister named Martha. Nash had a very advanced, education filled childhood learning to read and play piano before the age of three. He attended public school and both his parents and grandparents were very influential in his education. During high school, Nash took advanced mathematics and chemistry at a community college and later was accepted into the chemical engineering program with a full scholarship from the George Westinghouse Scholarship Foundation. During this Brafford 2
time, Nash first studied chemical engineering, then studied chemistry and later found his
calling in the field of mathematics. After graduating in 1948 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology he had both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in mathematics. He was then accepted to both Harvard and Princeton but decided on Princeton after the chairman of the