John Forbes Nash Jr.

American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)

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Lived 1928–2015, aged 87United States

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1928–2015
Aged 87

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Updated 2026-05-29

Nash cracked game theory and rode it to a 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. Partial differential equations and real algebraic geometry rounded out his mathematical dominance, though his name became even bigger after the 2001 film adaptation of his life.

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John Forbes Nash Jr., known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. In 2015, Louis Nirenberg and he were awarded the Abel Prize for their contributions to the field of partial differential equations.

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