Sixth Short (literally) Biography

Have you seen the Russell Crowe movie "A beautiful mind"? It shows the life and challenge of having schizophrenia that John Nash experienced.

"Since he was born in a family that loved books, John Nash became interested in the learning process. He attended Bluefield schools and his parents’ fondness for books provided him with an encyclopedia that he would read frequently in his childhood. His time as a student revolved around mathematics, chemistry, electrical studies and experimentation. He would read characteristic books like the Men of Mathematics and prove integer theorems.

John Forbes Nash, Jr. is profoundly attached to his Nash equilibrium theory that is learned and applied in making business decisions. From Pittsburgh, he joined Princeton University where he worked on the equilibrium theory and received his Ph.D. with the dissertation of non-cooperative games. This thesis contains detailed definitions and explanations of what would be known by all as “Nash equilibrium.”

Forty-four years later, the same thesis earned him a Nobel Prize in Economics, which he shared with Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi (game theorists). In addition, he published several articles entitled Equilibrium Points in N-person Games (1950), Econometrica about The Bargaining problem (April 1950), and Two-person Cooperative Games (1953). He worked at RAND cooperation in Santa Monica in the summer of 1950 and also taught calculus at Princeton from 1950-1951. At the same time, he proved the Nash embedding theorem and became science assistant at MIT Massachusetts."

      -http://famous-mathematicians.org/