Authors: Sylvia Nasar
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Mathematics, #Science, #Azizex666, #General
Foundations of Economic Theory
(Samuelson),
86
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
(Shelley),
273
Fuchs, Klaus,
110
Fuchsian functions,
93
Fuck Your Buddy,
102
Fukuda, Hiroshi,
75
Fulbright program,
236
Galbraith, John Kenneth,
116
Nash equilibrium and,
95
Gallagher, Chicky,
193
Galmarino, Alberto,
240
–41
games:
non-zero-sum,
87
“Games Against Nature” (Milnor),
149
Games and Decisions
(Luce and Raiffa),
122
application of,
374
–78
Econometric Society and,
354
MIT seminar on,
319
Nash’s introduction to,
45
in
New Palgrave,
20
1961 conference on,
296
–97
1964 conference on,
313
origins of,
13
–14
von Neumann’s role in,
13
–14,
81
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83
–87,
88
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90
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91
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92
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93
–94,
95
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96
–97,
98
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100
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111
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115
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116
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117
–18,
119
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128
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149
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150
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362
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363
see also
bargaining; min-max theorem; Nash equilibrium
Gangolli, Ramesh,
240
–41
Garabedian, Paul,
219
–20
Garson, Greer,
36
Gauss’s proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra,
67
General Electric,
27
geniuses:
clusters of,
94
schizophrenia and,
19
geometry:
algebraic,
96
continuous,
81
differential,
203
and Nash’s graduate studies,
68
non-Euclidean,
231
see also
Riemannian manifolds
Germany, East,
281
Gibbon, Edward,
58
Gibbs, Willard,
51
Gide, Andre,
310
–11
Gillespie, Charles,
337
Girschick, Abraham,
117
Gleason, Andrew,
146
Gleason, Jackie,
193
Goodwin, Ruth,
243
–44
Goldin, Claudia,
338
Goldman, Oscar,
252
Goldschmidt, Hubert,
298
Goldstine, Hermann,
82
Goodman, Leo,
210
Gordon, Julie,
355
Grant, Mrs. Austin,
172
Guggenheim Foundation,
236
Gunderson, John G.,
16
Haber, Seymour,
146
Hahn, Otto,
56
Harish-Chandra,
286
at 1961 conference,
297
Harvard University,
45
,
46
,
51
,
55
,
60
,
134
–135,
136
,
137
,
144
,
146
,
235
Haslam, John,
275
Hayek, Friedrich von,
367
Heifetz, Jascha,
246
Heilbroner, Robert,
89
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle,
221
see also
“Nash”
Hilbert spaces,
44
Hiroshima bombing (1945),
195
Hitch, Charles,
122
Hitler, Adolf,
84
Hoffman, Abbie,
271
Hoffman, Alan,
339
homotopy chains,
69
Hoselitz, Bert,
90
–91
Houghton, Amory,
279
Howard, Paul,
222
Hurwicz, Leo,
85
hyperbolic equations,
see
nonlinear partial differential equations
I Am a Genius
(Wiener),
136
I Am a Mathematician
(Wiener),
136
IAS,
see
Institute for Advanced Study
IBM,
82
If,
142
IHES (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques),
279
,
280
,
298
,
311
Île de France,
233
Immigration Act (1941),
271
–72
impossibility theorem,
108
“Insanity Bit, The” (Krim),
291
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES),
279
,
280
,
298
,
311
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS):
activities at,
63
creation of,
54
–55
Gödel’s professorship at,
355
Lefschetz on,
59