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Ramanujan, Nash, Turing, Mirzakhani
From a short review of a new documentary about the life and work of the Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, September 9, 2022: While there are other movies about real-life mathematicians such as Nash, Ramanujan and Turing, the special abilities of these individuals … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Turing, eccentricity, Fields Medal, John Nash, Maryam Mirzakhani, science films, Srinivasa Ramanujan, women in math
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Remembering John Nash, mathematician who unlocked game theory for economics
The Wire May 25, 2015 The economist and Nobel Laureate Robert Solow once said, “It wasn’t until Nash that game theory came alive for economists.” He was speaking of the work of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a mathematician whose 27-page … Continue reading
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Tagged Alicia Nash, game theory, John Nash, Louis Nirenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, schizophrenia
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