Nash's doctoral thesis

Nash's doctoral thesis Non-Cooperative Games, 1951 NASH, JR. John Forbes (1928-2015). "Non-Cooperative Games." Offprint from: Annals of Mathematics , pp. 286-295, Vol 54, No 2, September 1951. First edition, offprint issue of Nash's doctoral thesis, formulating the theory of non-cooperative games and describing the Nash equilibrium, for which he was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences . In his biographical essay for the Nobel Prize, Nash humbly noted, "As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative Games,' also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. So I was prepared actually for the possibility that the game theory work would not be regarded as acceptable as a thesis in the mathematics department and then that I could realize the objective of a Ph.D. thesis with the other results." It was not only a Ph.D., but also a Nobel Prize. Non-Cooperative Games put forth the concept now widely known as the Nash equilibrium. It provided a framework for analyzing strategic interaction of all kinds, and its reach would be felt from economics to social and biological sciences and beyond. Octavo (258 x 173mm). Original orange stapled wrappers (some light soiling to covers, a little rusting to staples). Provenance : John Forbes Nash, Jr.