The Essential John Nash

When John Nash received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography A Beautiful Afind has revealed the man. The Essential John Nash reveals his work-in his own words. This volume lets readers experience for themselves the extraordinary range and power of Nash's contributions to diverse branches of mathematics, from Riemannian geometry and partial differencial equations to game theory. Included are nine of Nash's most influential papers, most of them written over the decade beginning in 1949. All those inspired by Nash's dazzling ideas will welcome this opportunity to trace them back to the exceptional mind they came from. Book jacket.

Harold W. Kuhn is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University. Winner of the 1980 von Neumann Prize in Theory, he is the editor of several books (all Princeton), including "Classics in Game Theory, Linear Inequalities and Related Systems, Contributions to the Theory of Games, I and II", and is the author of "Lectures on the Theory of Games" (forthcoming, Princeton). Sylvia Nasar tells the story of Nash's life in "A Beautiful Mind" (Simon & Schuster), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A former economics reporter for the "New York Times", she is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at Columbia University.