Word: nash
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CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Richard Hornik (Deputy, Foreign), Janice C. Simpson (Deputy, Domestic) Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, J. Madeleine Nash, Richard N. Ostling, Paul A. Witteman National Correspondents: Margot Hornblower, Jon D. Hull, Jack E. White Diplomatic Correspondent: J.F.O. McAllister Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Jay Peterzell, Suneel Ratan, Elaine Shannon, Ann M. Simmons, Dick Thompson, Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty, Douglas Waller, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: John Moody, Edward Barnes, Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Jenifer Mattos Boston: Sam Allis...
CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Richard Hornik (Deputy, Foreign), Janice C. Simpson (Deputy, Domestic); Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, J. Madeleine Nash, Richard N. Ostling, Paul A. Witteman National Correspondents: Margot Hornblower, Jon D. Hull, Jack E. White Diplomatic Correspondent: J.F.O. McAllister...
CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Richard Hornik (Deputy, Foreign), Janice C. Simpson (Deputy, Domestic); Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, J. Madeleine Nash, Richard N. Ostling, Paul A. Witteman National Correspondents: Margot Hornblower, Jon D. Hull, Jack E. White Diplomatic Correspondent: J.F.O. McAllister...
...work that earned Nash his prize was largely completed by 1950 when, at ^ age 22, he submitted the Princeton Ph.D. thesis that has been described as the rock on which the mathematics of game theory is based. Game theory tries to explain economic behavior by analyzing the strategies "players" in the marketplace use to maximize their winnings. Nash, drawing on the dynamics of such games as poker and chess, introduced the distinction between cooperative games, in which players form binding agreements, and noncooperative ones, in which they don't. His "Nash Equilibrium" has been used by generations of corporate...
...Nash taught in the '50s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his career there was reportedly interrupted by bouts of mental illness. He returned to Princeton, where he became increasingly withdrawn. Eventually, the mathematics department appointed him a "visiting research collaborator," a post that has allowed the man a university press officer describes as "incredibly brilliant and eccentric" to roam his beloved campus freely for the past 25 years, using its computers whenever he likes, and occasionally its blackboards...