John Nash
Video Chapters
- Highlights (4:32)
- Choosing Carnegie Tech (3:21)
- Influence of John Synge and Dick Duffin (3:25)
- Course with Bert Hoselitz (3:21)
- 1948-1950 at Princeton (3:39)
- Writing thesis (2:08)
- Three proofs of the equilibrium point existence (4:11)
- Nash equilibrium thesis (4:06)
- Genesis of the bargaining problem (3:51)
- The bargaining problem (4:21)
- Hex (3:11)
- Two person cooperative games (3:42)
- Game theory conferences (3:46)
- Current state of game theory (2:49)
- Current research (3:30)
- Early work in Analysis (2:01)
- Meeting Einstein and Whitney (6:53)
- Connection to Jack Milnor (2:04)
- Arriving at MIT (6:52)
- Interaction with Norman Levinson (1:13)
- Work on embedding problem (8:13)
- Jürgen Moser (3:09)
- Involvement in PDEs (4:44)
- Tensor calculus and the cosmological constant (6:23)
- Work on the theory of relativity (2:06)
- Still working (1:49)
- Greatest influences (3:54)
- Nash's work on fluid motion (4:54)
- Advice to graduate students (2:40)
A video interview, conducted on Nov. 27, 2011, with the mathematician John F. Nash, Jr., who won a Nobel Prize for his contributions to game theory and who was the subject of the biography and film “A Beautiful Mind.”
