Nash / Kuhn / Nasar The Essential John Nash

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-8408-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nash, John

Kuhn, Harold W.

Nasar, Sylvia

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Differentialrechnungen und -gleichungen
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Operations Research Spieltheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE by Harold W. Kuhn vii

INTRODUCTION by Sylvia Nasar xi

Chapter 1: Press Release--The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1

Chapter 2: Autobiography 5

Photo Essay 13

Editor's introduction to Chapter 3 29

Chapter 3: The Game of Hex by John Milnor 31

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 4 35

Chapter 4: The bargaining problem 37

Editor's Introduction to Chapters 5, 6, and 7 47

Chapter 5: Equilibrium Points in n-Person games 49

Chapter 6: Non-Cooperative Games Facsimile of Ph.D. Thesis 51

Chapter 7: Non-Cooperative Games 85

Chapter 8: Two-Person Coooperative Games 99

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 9 115

Chapter 9: Parallel Control 117

Chapter 10: real Algebraic Manifolds 127

Chapter 11: The Imbedding problem for Riemannian Manifolds 151

Chapter 12: Continuity of Solutions of Parabolic and Elliptic Equations 211

AFTERWORD 241

SOURCES 243

Über Autor(innen)

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.