John Nash

Nobel prize winning mathematician and paranoid schizophrenic who was portrayed in the movie A Beautiful Mind which was based up on the book by the same name.

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Major Works of John F. Nash

• "Equilibrium points in N-Person Games", 1950, Proceedings of NAS.
• "The Bargaining Problem", 1950, Econometrica.
• "A Simple Three-Person Poker Game", with L.S. Shapley, 1950, Annals of Mathematical Statistics.
• "Non-Cooperative Games", 1951, Annals of Mathematics.
• "Two-Person Cooperative Games", 1953, Econometrica.

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I wonder if any of Nash's ideas could be applied to regionalism as in using new approaches to strengthen the Lake Erie West region by having the communities within the region work together instead of against each other? Cooperation instead of competition.