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Fortune,
104
,
106
,
108
,
115
,
116
,
216
,
217
,
224

Foundations of Economic Theory
(Samuelson),
86

Fox, Ralph,
64
,
72
,
75

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
(Shelley),
273

Fredga, Kerstin,
360
,
370
,
372

Freud, Sigmund,
59
,
94

Freudian theory,
188
,
250
,
259
–60,
351

Friedrichs, Kurt,
225
,
226

Fuchs, Klaus,
110

Fuchsian functions,
93

Fuck Your Buddy,
102

Fukuda, Hiroshi,
75

Fulbright program,
236

Galbraith, John Kenneth,
116

Gale, David,
62
,
64
,
77
,
78
,
83
,
100
,
308
–9

Nash equilibrium and,
95

Gallagher, Chicky,
193

Galmarino, Alberto,
240
–41

games:

non-zero-sum,
87

two-person zero-sum,
14
,
87
,
95
,
96
,
115
,
116
,
119

“Games Against Nature” (Milnor),
149

Games and Decisions
(Luce and Raiffa),
122

game theory,
56
,
84
–91,
101
,
286

application of,
374
–78

Econometric Society and,
354

MIT seminar on,
319

Nash’s course in,
240
–41,
265

and Nash’s graduate studies,
65
,
68
,
77
,
86
–87,
90
–91,
96
,
100
,
132

Nash’s introduction to,
45

in
New Palgrave,
20

1961 conference on,
296
–97

1964 conference on,
313

in Nobel deliberations,
357
,
360
–73

origins of,
13
–14

RAND and,
104
–5,
108
,
111
,
115
–22,
149
–51

Tucker and,
64
–65,
77
,
83
,
90
,
91
,
100
,
118
,
119
,
362

von Neumann’s role in,
13
–14,
81
,
83
–87,
88
,
90
,
91
,
92
,
93
–94,
95
,
96
–97,
98
,
100
,
111
,
115
,
116
,
117
–18,
119
,
128
,
149
,
150
,
362
,
363

see also
bargaining; min-max theorem; Nash equilibrium

Gangolli, Ramesh,
240
–41

Garabedian, Paul,
219
–20

Garber, Robert,
292
,
293
,
294
,
305
,
307
,
310

Gårding, Lars,
219
,
368

Garsia, Adriano,
237
,
257
,
258

Garson, Greer,
36

Gauss, Carl Friedrich,
35
,
69
,
128
,
141
,
230

Gauss’s proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra,
67

Gauthier, Jacqueline,
260
,
261

General Electric,
27

general theory of relativity,
52
,
70
,
86
,
231
,
380

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

Germany, Nazi,
84
,
115

Gibbon, Edward,
58

Gibbs, Willard,
51

Gide, Andre,
310
–11

Gillespie, Charles,
337

Girschick, Abraham,
117

Glass, James,
278
,
335

Gleason, Andrew,
146

Gleason, Jackie,
193

go,
75
,
76
,
100
,
142
,
326
,
343

Gödel, Kurt,
50
,
54
,
59
,
70
,
84
,
216
,
236
,
355

Goodwin, Ruth,
243
–44

Goheen, Robert,
287
,
310

Goldin, Claudia,
338

Goldman, Oscar,
252

Goldschmidt, Hubert,
298

Goldstine, Hermann,
82

Gonshor, Harry,
144
,
343

Goodman, Leo,
210

Gordon, Julie,
355

Gore, Al,
374
,
375

Gottesman, Irving I.,
17
,
188

Grant, Mrs. Austin,
172

Gromov, Mikhail,
12
,
158
,
318

Grothendieck, Alexandre,
279
,
298
,
311
,
312
,
334

Guggenheim Foundation,
236

Gunderson, John G.,
16

Haber, Seymour,
146

Hahn, Otto,
56

Halmos, Paul,
12
,
80
,
155
,
159

Hardwick, Elizabeth,
256
,
259

Hardy, G. H.,
61
,
79
,
130
,
137
,
228
,
230

Harish-Chandra,
286

Harsanyi, John C.,
98
,
354
,
362
,
374

at 1961 conference,
297

Nobel deliberations on,
363
,
364
,
371
,
373

Harvard University,
45
,
46
,
51
,
55
,
60
,
134
–135,
136
,
137
,
144
,
146
,
235

Haslam, John,
275

Hausner, Melvin,
63
,
69
,
73

Hayek, Friedrich von,
367

Heifetz, Jascha,
246

Heilbroner, Robert,
89

Hein, Piet,
76
,
78

Heisenberg, Werner,
70
,
221

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle,
221

Henkin, Leon,
62
,
64

Henry, Agnes,
126
,
285

Herter, Christian A.,
278
,
279

Hex,
76
,
78
,
299

see also
“Nash”

Hicks, John,
89
,
108

Hilbert, David,
52
,
53
,
81
,
157

Hilbert’s Fifth Problem,
81
,
146

Hilbert spaces,
44

Hincks, Ruth,
147
–48,
174

Hinman, George,
42
,
44

Hironaka, Heisuke,
309
,
333

Hiroshima bombing (1945),
195

Hitch, Charles,
122

Hitler, Adolf,
84

Hoffman, Abbie,
271

Hoffman, Alan,
339

Holder estimates,
219
,
225

homology theory,
68
,
69

homotopy chains,
69

Hopf, Heinz,
162
,
225

Hörmander, Lars,
216
,
217
,
219
,
226
–27,
232
,
264
,
280
,
300
,
301

Nobel deliberations and,
365
,
366

Hoselitz, Bert,
90
–91

Houghton, Amory,
279

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC),
152
,
187

Howard, Paul,
222

Hurwicz, Leo,
85

hydrogen bomb,
81
,
93
,
109
,
110

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

ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles),
106
,
110

If,
142

IHES (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques),
279
,
280
,
298
,
311

Île de France,
233

Immigration Act (1941),
271
–72

implicit-function theorems,
160
,
222
,
243

impossibility theorem,
108

Ingham, Albert E.,
229
,
232
,
238

“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

description of,
50
,
215
–16

Gödel’s professorship at,
355

Lefschetz on,
59

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