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John Forbes Nash John Forbes Nash is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the factors that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life. Abstract In-person image Nashs theories are used in market economics, computing, evolutionary ,biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, politics and military theory. Nobel Prize Serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University during the latter part of his life,John Nash shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. Nash is the subject of the 2001 Hollywood movie A Beautiful Mind. The film, loosely based on the biography of the same name, focuses on Nashs mathematical genius and also his schizophrenia. Movie Film image The REAL Nash is indeed both a genius and a schizophrenic. We will see next Early life Nash was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia. His father, after whom he is named, was an electrical engineer for the Appalachian Electric Power Company. His mother, born Margaret Virginia Martin and known as Virginia, had been a schoolteacher before she married. Education Nash attended kindergarten and public school. His parents and grandparents provided books and encyclopedias that he learned from. Nash attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) with a full scholarship, the George Westinghouse Scholarship, and initially majored in Chemical Engineering. He switched to Chemistry, and eventually to Mathematics. After graduating in 1948 with Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Master of Science in Mathematics, he accepted a scholarship to Princeton University, where he pursued his graduate studies in Mathematics. Marriage In 1951, Nash went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a C. L. E. Moore Instructor in the mathematics faculty. There, he met Alicia Lopez-Harri