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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Forbes Nash Jr. has received more than 12,494,089 page views. His biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). John Forbes Nash Jr. is the 26th most popular mathematician (down from 15th in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from United States (down from 55th 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

Among mathematicians, John Forbes Nash Jr. ranks 26 out of 1,004. Before him are Joseph Fourier, Hero of Alexandria, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Luca Pacioli, John von Neumann, and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. After him are Évariste Galois, Apollonius of Perga, John Napier, François Viète, Diophantus, and Gerolamo Cardano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, John Forbes Nash Jr. ranks 7. Before him are Che Guevara, Ariel Sharon, Andy Warhol, Stanley Kubrick, Hosni Mubarak, and Ennio Morricone. After him are Noam Chomsky, Agnès Varda, Eduard Shevardnadze, Serge Gainsbourg, James Watson, and Chinghiz Aitmatov. Among people deceased in 2015, John Forbes Nash Jr. ranks 4. Before him are Lee Kuan Yew, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and Günter Grass. After him are Demis Roussos, Nicholas Winton, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Christopher Lee, Omar Sharif, Terry Pratchett, Tomas Tranströmer, and B.B. King.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Forbes Nash Jr. ranks 110 out of 20,380. Before him are Vin Diesel (1967), Jimi Hendrix (1942), Jim Morrison (1943), John Dewey (1859), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), and Debbie Reynolds (1932). After him are Joan Baez (1941), Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927), Jack Nicholson (1937), Madonna (1958), Jane Addams (1860), and Isadora Duncan (1877).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, John Forbes Nash Jr. ranks 1. After him are Charles Sanders Peirce (1839), Norbert Wiener (1894), Claude Shannon (1916), Katherine Johnson (1918), Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), Mary Jackson (1921), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Alonzo Church (1903), Jesse Douglas (1897), Karen Uhlenbeck (1942), and Paul Cohen (1934).

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