John Nash
John Nash was an American mathematician whose work on game theory, particularly the Nash equilibrium, transformed economics and earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize.
His decades-long struggle with schizophrenia and eventual recovery became widely known through the biography and film *A Beautiful Mind*.
Nash equilibrium describes a stable state where no player benefits from changing strategy unilaterally.
- A Beautiful MindFilm about brilliant, troubled economist
- Nobel PrizeHighest academic honor
- Nobel laureateDistinguished achievement award recipient
- schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
- mental illnessDisorder affecting cognition or mood
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