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Without looking it up, I don't think the timing was right. He once said his work during WW2 was one of the highlights o his life, but while I forget the details
by CurtMonash 10y ago
Without looking it up, I don't think the timing was right. He once said his work during WW2 was one of the highlights o his life, but while I forget the details, I think it was conventional economies rather than the strategy stuff for which he became famous.
- zimpenfish 10y agoWikipedia says the von Neumann version of the NashEq was published in 1944 when Schelling was just graduating. And also that Cournot published a version in 1838...
- CurtMonash 10y agoTechnically, it's true that: -- The Von Neumann Min-Max Theorem is a special case of the existence of Nash Equilibria. -- Proving the original Min-Max Theorem isn't any any easier to do directly than is proving the existence of Nash Equilibria in general. That said, my dissertation was an extension of the Min-Max Theorem, and I basically didn't think about Nash Equilibria once the whole time I was working on it. THAT said, my dissertation was an independent proof of the theorem of Mertens and Neymann. Their proof seemed closer to the Fixed-Point Theorem kinds of techniques that Nash used. Anyhow, I'm pretty sure that Tom himself didn't engage in that kind of mathematics.