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...community until he is thrust into the spotlight. But when photographs of John Nash appeared in the press last week, a common reaction in and around Princeton, New Jersey, was a shock of recognition: "Oh, my gosh, it's him!" Nash, who shared the Economics Prize with John Harsanyi of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and Reinhard Selten of the University of Bonn, is a familiar eccentric in the university town -- a quiet, detached man who frequently spends his time riding the local "Dinky" train on its short hop between Princeton and Princeton Junction...
...Americans and a German were also rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Economics using game strategy -- employed in, say, chess and poker -- to predict the market. The winners: John C. Harsanyi, a retired professor from the University of California at Berkeley; John F. Nash, a mathematician at Princeton University; and Reinhard Selten of the University of Bonn...
LOVER OF LIFE-Zsolf de Harsanyi-Putnam...
...novelist Harsanyi lays out this wholesome career in great detail-more, perhaps, than some laymen will care for. He loves Rubens' early years in Italy, under the patronage of the Duke of Mantua; the shrewd, rewarding sequel in Antwerp, where his studio became a factory; the courts at Paris, Madrid, London, The Hague, where, while he colored canvas by the bolt, he also did diplomatic errands in the service of his native Flanders...
Most of these facts might be got more handily (and possibly more accurately) from an encyclopedia, but Harsanyi's 572-page novel provides for leisured readers a better-than-hack picture of Italy's late Renaissance cities, courts and manners. As a novelist Harsanyi has at least one artistic moment that Flaubert would have appreciated: As Galileo kisses the yellow hand of his mistress's dead father he can only think how like it is to hers...