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John Nash’s groundbreaking, dissertation “NON-COOPERATVE GAMES” laid the foundation for what would later be known as the Nash Equilibrium, a cornerstone of modern game theory. This work earned Nash the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and provided a mathematical explanation for Adam Smith’s concept of the “invisible hand.”
Nash’s seminal paper, Non-Cooperative Games, became increasingly influential—even during his 25-year struggle with paranoid schizophrenia. Remarkably, Nash recovered in 1983 and went on to contribute after his recovery. In 2002, he published Ideal Money, that assumed political cooperation, but lectured on a decentralized money concept he titled Asymptotically Ideal Money.
Tragically, John Nash and his wife died in a taxi accident while returning home, after receiving the 2015 Abel Prize, awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Coincidentally, Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, made his last public post in 2014. You’ll find another smoking gun in Nash’s NON-COOPERATIVE GAMES. Note the phrase, “a simplified three person poker game.”
And in Nakamoto’s 2009 Bitcoin code, he remarked:
// We need to write a new protocol for clients to notify about
// transactions that won't fit in a block. This is useful for
// things like poker where one party might want proof that
// a transaction was sent before proceeding with the game.
Read Nash’s 1951 NON-COOPERATVE GAMES.
https://gwern.net/doc/statistics/decision/1951-nash.pdf
Nash’s seminal paper, Non-Cooperative Games, became increasingly influential—even during his 25-year struggle with paranoid schizophrenia. Remarkably, Nash recovered in 1983 and went on to contribute after his recovery. In 2002, he published Ideal Money, that assumed political cooperation, but lectured on a decentralized money concept he titled Asymptotically Ideal Money.
Tragically, John Nash and his wife died in a taxi accident while returning home, after receiving the 2015 Abel Prize, awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Coincidentally, Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, made his last public post in 2014. You’ll find another smoking gun in Nash’s NON-COOPERATIVE GAMES. Note the phrase, “a simplified three person poker game.”
And in Nakamoto’s 2009 Bitcoin code, he remarked:
// We need to write a new protocol for clients to notify about
// transactions that won't fit in a block. This is useful for
// things like poker where one party might want proof that
// a transaction was sent before proceeding with the game.
Read Nash’s 1951 NON-COOPERATVE GAMES.
https://gwern.net/doc/statistics/decision/1951-nash.pdf