Tuesday, May 26, 2015
John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose life story inspired the film A Beautiful Mind, died over Memorial Day weekend in a fatal car accident along with his wife, Alicia. In 1994, Nash won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work in game theory. You can view the PACM panel discussion he participated in with colleague Harold Kuhn for the Theory of Games course here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u3QmJHEQRc.