When John Nash wrote “Non -cooperative games”, “ His doctorate dissertation in Princeton in 1950, the text of his thesis (Read it online) was brief. He only ran 26 pages. And more particularly, it was light on quotes. Nash dissolved have cited two texts: John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern Game theory and economic behavior (1944), who Created essentially the theory of games and revolutionized the field of economy; the other text cited, “Points of balance in N-Person games”, “ was an article written by Nash himself. And he laid the foundations for his thesis, another founding work in the development of game theory, for which Nash has received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994.
The award to invent a new field is a thin bibliography.
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