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John Forbes Nash Jr.

1928 - 2015

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John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015), known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. In 2015, Louis Nirenberg and he were awarded the Abel Prize for their contributions to the field of partial differential equations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Forbes Nash Jr. is the 11th most popular mathematician (up from 26th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from United States (up from 110th in 2019) and the most popular American Mathematician.

John Forbes Nash Jr. is most famous for his contributions to game theory and differential geometry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.

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Among mathematicians, John Forbes Nash Jr. ranks 11 out of 1,004. Before him are Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Euclid, Fibonacci, Ada Lovelace, Leonhard Euler, and Omar Khayyam. After him are Bernhard Riemann, Hypatia, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Al-Biruni, Pierre de Fermat, and Bertrand Russell.

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Among people born in 1928, John Forbes Nash Jr. ranks 2. Before him is Che Guevara. After him are James Watson, Andy Warhol, Hosni Mubarak, Ennio Morricone, Stanley Kubrick, Ariel Sharon, Noam Chomsky, Eduard Shevardnadze, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and Chinghiz Aitmatov. Among people deceased in 2015, John Forbes Nash Jr. ranks 1. After him are Lee Kuan Yew, B.B. King, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Charles H. Townes, Günter Grass, Lemmy, Christopher Lee, Tomas Tranströmer, Nicholas Winton, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and Demis Roussos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Forbes Nash Jr. ranks 36 out of 20,380. Before him are George Washington (1732), John F. Kennedy (1917), Joe Biden (1942), Neil Armstrong (1930), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), and Benjamin Franklin (1706). After him are Cher (1946), Madonna (1958), Pocahontas (1595), Martin Scorsese (1942), Joseph Smith (1805), and Emily Dickinson (1830).

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Among mathematicians born in United States, John Forbes Nash Jr. ranks 1. After him are Charles Sanders Peirce (1839), Norbert Wiener (1894), Katherine Johnson (1918), Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), Jim Simons (1938), Claude Shannon (1916), Paul Cohen (1934), John Tate (1925), Mary Jackson (1921), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), and Alonzo Church (1903).

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