Nash American John Forbes is called the genius of mathematical science. Extraordinary thinking allowed him to make a significant contribution to the development of game theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in economics. Farbes is known to people far from the world of science as a prototype of the protagonist of the popular Hollywood movie "Mind Games" with Russell Crowe.
Biography: early years
Nash John Forbes (Nash John Forbes) was born June 13, 1928 in the American town of Blufield, in West Virginia. He was from a simple family: his mother worked as a school teacher of English, and his father worked as an electrician.
Nash was an ordinary boy. He studied in high school, even then he did not have a craving for mathematics. This item made him bored. In those years, Nash was fascinated by chemical experiments, playing chess and books. He also knew all of Bach's compositions. His love for the exact sciences appeared at the age of 14 after reading the book “Great Mathematicians”.
Career
After school, Forbes entered Carnegie Mellon University. There, he tried to study chemistry and the international economy, but in the end he nevertheless settled on mathematics. After graduation, Nash became a graduate student at Princeton University. And at the same time, he became interested in game theory, and later defended a dissertation on this topic.
In 1950, Forbes joined the RAND Research Corporation. In parallel, he taught calculus courses at Princeton University. A year later, Forbes began working as a research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1959, Forbes was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and he fell out of scientific life for several years. In the 80s, the disease receded for a short while and he went headlong into research.
One of Nash’s iconic scientific achievements is the derivation of the equilibrium formula in game theory. His discoveries were subsequently actively used in strategies for conducting various transactions, in particular auctions.
In 1994, Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for labor, "Equilibrium Analysis in the Theory of Non-Cooperative Games." In 2015, he received the prestigious Abel Prize. He became the first scientist whose works were marked by two similar awards.
