• Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash killed in car crash
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[quote]US mathematician John Nash, who inspired the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash, local media has reported. Nash, 86, and his wife Alicia were both killed when their taxi crashed in New Jersey, the reports said. The mathematician is renowned for his work in game theory, winning the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.[/quote] [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32865248[/url] He had just won the Abel prize (a big deal) last week.
goddamn that ninja sad as fuck though
Just took an exam on Game Theory, he basically invented half the theory we use today, in economics or otherwise. Great mathematician, rip.
Here's his first famous paper about what we now call Nash equilibrium: [url]http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/events/iap07/Nash-Eqm.pdf[/url] Short and sweet at barely a page. It would probably just be a MathOverflow post these days.
Like I said in the other thread, he's one of the few scientists I've ever been profoundly interested in (I personally don't keep up with a lot of it, but his story interested me so much.) I've chosen to write a ton of papers on him because of his findings and his story. Rest in peace. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SizS1nOOeJg[/media]
I only really discovered his work through the film A Beautiful Mind, sad to see him go.
I have that movie but never saw it. Maybe I'll watch it today
[QUOTE=Tone Float;47793614]I have that movie but never saw it. Maybe I'll watch it today[/QUOTE] give it a watch. while it overtells a lot of things and sometimes can be flat out wrong, it's still a very interesting movie in itself. russel crowe isn't even half bad in it either.
Always wear a seatbelts guys. Even in a taxi
Oh fuck :/ I am genuinely saddened by this news...
As sad as it is, its nice to know he was with his wife when it happened, that neither would have to suffer without the other.
I look at so many events/situations through the eyes of game theory. What a legend.
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