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A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
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  • Title: A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
  • Author(s) Tom Siegfried
  • Publisher: Joseph Henry Press; 1st ed edition (September 25, 2006)
  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • eBook: PDF
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0309101921
  • ISBN-13: 978-0309101929
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Millions have seen the movie and thousands have read the book but few have fully appreciated the mathematics invented by John Nash's beautiful mind. Today Nash's beautiful math has become a universal language for research in the social sciences and has infiltrated the realms of evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and even quantum physics.

John Forbes Nash Jr. won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics for pioneering research published in the 1950s on a new branch of mathematics known as game theory. At the time of Nash's early work, game theory was briefly popular among some mathematicians and Cold War analysts. But it remained relatively obscure until the 1970s, when evolutionary biologists began to find it useful. In the 1980s economists began to embrace game theory. Since then game theory math has found an ever expanding repertoire of applications among a wide range of scientific disciplines.

Today neuroscientists peer into game players brains, anthropologists play games with people from primitive cultures, biologists use games to explain the evolution of human language, and mathematicians exploit games to better understand social networks.

About the Authors
  • Tom Siegfried was Science Editor of the Dallas Morning News for 20 years and currently writes a regular column for the science news website The Why Files. In 1993 he received the American Chemical Society’s James H. Grady-James T. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public. In 2004 he received the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in- Society award. In 2006 he was awarded the American Geophysical Union’s Robert C. Cowen award for lifetime achievement in science journalism. He is the author of The Bit and the Pendulum, published in 2000, and Strange Matters, published in 2002. Tom lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Chris.
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