John Forbes Nash, Jr.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
John Forbes Nash Jr.was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations. Nash's work has provided insight into the factors that govern chance and decision making inside complex systems found in daily life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth13 June 1928
CountryUnited States of America
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
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I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T.
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I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.