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John Nash Accomplishments

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A few days after picking up the Abel prize, John Forbes Nash Jr died at the age of 86 with his wife, Alicia Nash, in a car crash on the New Jersey turnpike on May 24, 2015. John Forbes Nash Jr. received a Nobel Prize for Economics in 19941. The Nobel Prize is already a remarkable achievement; however, Nash also received in 1978 the John Von Neumann Theory Prize and in 1999 the American Mathematical Society’s Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research2. John Nash was named very early in his career by Fortune magazine as being one of the most promising mathematicians in the world because of his legendary work in game theory. Nash was still busy in mathematical research up until his final days, as he had told a friend he had discovered

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