| Edition |
First Touchstone edition. |
| Description |
459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A Touchstone book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-437) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Bluefield -- 2. Carnegie Institute of Technology -- 3. The center of the universe -- 4. School of genius -- 5. Genius -- 6. Games -- 7. John von Neumann -- 8. The theory of games -- 9. The bargaining problem -- 10. Nash's rival idea -- 11. Lloyd -- 12. The war of wits -- 13. Game theory at RAND -- 14. The draft -- 15. A beautiful theorem -- 16. MIT -- 17. Bad boys -- 18. Experiments -- 19. Reds - 20. Geometry -- 21. Singularity -- 22. A special friendship -- 23. Eleanor -- 24. Jack -- 25. The arrest -- 26. Alicia -- 27. The courtship -- 28. Seattle -- 29. Death and marriage -- 30. Olden Land and Washington Square -- 31. The bomb factory -- 32. Secrets -- 33. Schemes -- 34. The Emperor of Antarctica -- 35. In the eye of the storm -- 36. Day breaks in Bowditch Hall -- 37. Mad Hatter's tea -- 38. Citoyen du Monde -- 39. Absolute zero -- 40. Tower of silence -- 41. An interlude of enforced rationality -- 42. The 'blowing up" problem -- 43. Solitude -- 44. A man all alone in a strange world -- 45. Phantom of Fine Hall -- 46. A quiet life -- 47. Remission-- 48. The prize -- 49. The greatest auction ever -- 50. Reawakening. |
| Subject |
Nash, John F., Jr., 1928-2015
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Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0684853701 paperback |
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