is John Nash's colleague and friend. He has taught economics courses on games of strategy, and written books on the subject for students and for the general audience. Here Prof. Dixit explains ...

Companies may use game theory to determine the Nash Equilibrium and see the benefit in their budgeting or pricing strategies. Game theory is the study of how and why players make decisions.

The economics committee first encountered John Nash's name in the mid-1980s. At that point game theory, the area where Nash did his Nobel-winning work, was as hot as any in the field of economics.

According to the paper, the design relies on a "pure strategy Nash Equilibrium." That refers to a game theory concept attributed to the Princeton University-educated mathematician John Nash ...

Since its beginnings, the prize category has been heavily dominated by Americans or by foreign scholars working in the U.S., including, in 1994, John Nash. Meet the Nobel laureates in economics ...

They contain reversals of fortune, moments of recognition, and, ultimately, a catharsis. Dr. John Nash's life — his early brilliance, his struggle with mental illness, and his slow, willful ...

John Nash’s notion of equilibrium is ubiquitous in economic theory, but a new study shows that it is often impossible to reach efficiently. The mathematician John Horton Conway’s myriad ...