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 ...

In the last few decades, game theory—the mathematical study of strategies and decision-making—has shed crucial light on the nature of rational behavior. In 1950, a young Princeton mathematics graduate ...

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 ...

The political backdrop to John Nash's paranoid and geopolitical hauntings included the Cold War, fought not only with spies and bombers stationed abroad, but by FBI agents, demagogue senators ...

At 30, John Nash suffered his first bout of full-blown schizophrenia, a disease sometimes called the "cancer of the mind." Aolicai Nash, his wife, was 26 at the time. "I wanted to help him," she ...