When the economics committee asked a young researcher, Ariel Rubinstein, to report on the most promising Nobel candidates in game theory, Nash's name topped the list.
Dr. John Nash's life — his early brilliance, his struggle with mental illness, and his slow, willful recovery — is definitely the stuff of Greek tragedy.Â
Among his first ideas about carving Mount Rushmore into the likenesses of American presidents, the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, insisted that there should be an explanatory inscription, which he called the Entablature.
