Timeline for Why was John Nash's 1950 Game Theory paper such a big deal?
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 15:32 | answer | added | Gil Kalai | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Apr 9, 2014 at 3:55 | answer | added | Joël | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 3:41 | answer | added | jmbejara | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 3:24 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 22 | |
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| Apr 8, 2014 at 21:39 | answer | added | GH from MO | timeline score: 38 | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 21:15 | comment | added | Paul Siegel | From talking to economists (I am not one) I think the answer is that there was little general theory about non-zero-sum games until Nash's result. I assume that people had found mixed strategy solutions for the prisoner's dilemma since it is elementary, but it is not at all obvious that such solutions exist in more complicated games. | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 21:04 | comment | added | Igor Rivin | @SylvainJULIEN Is that why he got the Nobel prize? I believe that was the OP's question. | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 20:52 | comment | added | alvarezpaiva | The big deal is not a theorem, but a definition. The concept of Nash equilibrium captures an essential feature of social and economic interactions. | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 20:51 | comment | added | Sylvain JULIEN | To me the real big deal about John Nash is not this paper, but the fact that he recovered from schizophrenia spontaneously. | |
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