2015
John Forbes Nash Jr
John Forbes Nash Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1928)
John Forbes Nash Jr
John Forbes Nash Jr.
American mathematician and Nobel Laureate (1928–2015)
- Died
- 2015
John Forbes Nash Jr., known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. In 2015, Louis Nirenberg and he were awarded the Abel Prize for their contributions to the field of partial differential equations.