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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bittersweet Honors | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THOSE WACKY GAME-MEISTERS | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

LOVER OF LIFE-Zsolf de Harsanyi-Putnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prudent Lover | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prudent Lover | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Planet Seer | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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