http://cheaptalk.org/2012/06/13/john-nash-documentary/ A blog about economics, politics and the random interests of forty-something professors Mon, 20 May 2013 21:33:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cheaptalk.org/2012/06/13/john-nash-documentary/#comment-14232 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:41:13 +0000 http://cheaptalk.org/2012/06/13/john-nash-documentary/#comment-14232 Yeah that is pretty amazing.

]]> http://cheaptalk.org/2012/06/13/john-nash-documentary/#comment-14231 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:14:19 +0000 http://cheaptalk.org/2012/06/13/john-nash-documentary/#comment-14231 I show this film in my game theory class.My favorite moment is when a mathematician explains how John Nash told him how to solve a particularly vexing problem — in a dream! And he credited Nash with the solution in the paper because he wouldn’t have come to that solution on his own.

]]> http://cheaptalk.org/2012/06/13/john-nash-documentary/#comment-14196 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:18:04 +0000 http://cheaptalk.org/2012/06/13/john-nash-documentary/#comment-14196 [...] – John Nash was 84 yesterday. Happy Birthday. [...]

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