Comments on: Connect to a concept

By: asha

asha — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:44:56 +0000

Its got to do with Game theory and Nash equilibrium.
It was a good movie :-)

By: Shashank

Shashank — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:57:33 +0000

1. Sylvia Nasar & poster for the movie A Beautiful Mind
2. ( Donald Knuth? ) & John Von Neumann
3. Donald Rumsfeld

The connect is “Game Theory”
A Beautiful Mind is based on John Nash, who contributed a lot towards Game Theory.
Neumann basically invented Game Theory.

By: yaksha

yaksha — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:21:10 +0000

1 Sylvia nasar the lady who wrote the biography of John Nash in 1998
1a> Russel crowe as John nash in the movie “A beautiful mind”
2>Oskar Morgenstern and Jon von neumann
who gave the “Theory of Games and Economic Behavior ” in 1944
Donald rumsfield the then US secretary of state who used the the game theory in the so called “war against terror”

And the connect is “Game theory”

By: Dibyo

Dibyo — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:12:32 +0000

Game Theory, broadly…

Sylvia Naser/A Beautiful Mind – John Nash, Oscar Morgenstern, Jon Von Nuemann – Game Theory

By: Tathagata Chatterjee

Tathagata Chatterjee — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:12:39 +0000

The theory which relates these pictures is The Theory of Games.
1) shows Sylvia Naser, who wrote the book A Beautiful Mind, where the economist John Nash is portrayed by Russell Crowe. Nash did extensive research on the application of Game Theory in Economics and a particular solution is named after him as Nash Equilibrium.
2) The mathematicians Oskar Morgenstern and John von Neumann, who proposed the Game Theory for the first time.

By: Prasad

Prasad — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:38:51 +0000

The connect is Game Theory?

By: bs

bs — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:09:38 +0000

Game Theory

1. Sylvia Nasar wrote A Beautiful Mind about John Forbes Nash and Nash came up with Nash equillibrium.
2. Oskar Morgenstern and von Neumann came up with the Neumann-Morgenstern utility.
Bonus: Donald Rumsfeld, the foremost game theorist of our times.

By: Madan

Madan — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:38:23 +0000

1.John Nash/Game Theory
Clue: Donald Rumsfeld
Both from same University

By: Prasanth

Prasanth — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:49:47 +0000

Game theory?

By: Swetha

Swetha — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:41:59 +0000

Game theory is the concept.

The field of game theory came into being with the 1944 classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern. (2nd row)

John Nash, a nobel prize winning game theorist, generalized the above mentioned theory and John Nash, was the subject of the 1998 biography by Sylvia Nasar and the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind.