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What does it mean to behave rationally? This question sounds like a problem for philosophers. Yet mathematicians also have something to say about it. In the last few decades, game theory—the ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Balaji Viswanathan, currently working on From Tryst to Tendulkar: The History of Independent India: Game theory is a study of strategies involved ...

The film “A Beautiful Mind” is the first to deal with a profound social issue that touches everyone but that few people understand--a Nash equilibrium. The film also focuses on the mental illness of ...

4/22/2009 - Game theorists have studied the concept of Nash equilibrium since it was defined by mathematician and economist John Forbes Nash in 1950. But what is Nash equilibrium? And how does it fit ...

When I was a Princeton undergraduate from 1995 to 1999, professor John Forbes Nash Jr., the subject of the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” was a shadow figure in a knit cap who haunted the Fine Hall math ...