tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post7735772846810796456..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: John Nash, dead at 86Steve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-32665426022791232932015-05-30T22:06:55.116-04:002015-05-30T22:06:55.116-04:00In my experience, game theory gives me a norm agai...In my experience, game theory gives me a norm against which to estimate people's deviation.David Coughlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-3429306738269576482015-05-24T22:41:29.962-04:002015-05-24T22:41:29.962-04:00Photos of Nash and the accident http://www.nj.com/...Photos of Nash and the accident http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/05/famed_a_beautiful_mind_mathematician_wife_killed_in_taxi_crash_police_say.html<br /><br />'"It doesn't appear that they were wearing seatbelts," he said.'<br /><br />"In his biography, Sylvia Nasar described how Nash accused one <br />mathematician of entering his office to steal his ideas anddxie48noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-31704497487676466782015-05-24T21:53:07.888-04:002015-05-24T21:53:07.888-04:00I wouldn't have been surprised if von Neumann ...I wouldn't have been surprised if von Neumann had condemned economics, a decade after his book, but that's not what he did.Douglas Knightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-38179178972650988462015-05-24T16:01:08.256-04:002015-05-24T16:01:08.256-04:00I'm not sure what game theory actually accompl...I'm not sure what game theory actually accomplishes in the real world: http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2011/05/what-use-is-game-theory.html<br /><br /><br />But presumably vN was not of this mind at the time (cf his book with Morganstern).steve hsuhttp://plus.google.com/u/0/+StephenHsu/aboutnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-87336150499545430682015-05-24T15:57:30.947-04:002015-05-24T15:57:30.947-04:00I am surprised by the story about von Neumann. My ...I am surprised by the story about von Neumann. My understanding is that at the end of his life he cared only about applications and judged math by what it accomplished, not its sophistication as mathematics.Douglas Knightnoreply@blogger.com