Dr John Nash Dies in Crash

Dr John Nash, who made pivotal contributions to game theory and differential equations was killed on Saturday in an automobile accident with his wife Alicia. He received a Nobel Prize in economics for his work in the theory of non-cooperative games. Nash equilibrium has been applied to modelling company merges and takeovers, portfolio optimization, and algorithmic trading.

Bloomberg article.

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