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Game Theory Pioneer John Nash, Wife, Killed In Taxi Crash

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The world lost one of its truly beautiful minds this Saturday, when a taxi carrying John Nash, 86, and his wife of nearly 60 years, Alicia, crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike. The two were killed on the spot when the driver of the Ford Crown Victoria lost control as he tried to pass a Chrysler in the center lane, crashing into a guard rail according to NJ.com.

The Nashes were ejected from the car according to State Police Sgt. Gregory Williams, adding that "It doesn't appear that they were wearing seatbelts."

The second vehicle also crashed into the guard rail, Williams said. The taxi driver was extricated from the vehicle and flown to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick with non-life-threatening injuries.

John Forbes Nash, Jr, was best known recently for the 2001 movie starting Russell Crowe "A Beautiful Mind" which depicted Nash's struggles with schizophrenia. His biggest accomplishment was his groundbreaking and pioneering work on game theory. Nash earned a Ph.D. degree in 1950 with a 28-page dissertation on non-cooperative games.

The thesis contained the definition and properties of what is now known as the "Nash equilibrium" - a crucial concept in non-cooperative games, it won Nash the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.

As NJ.com reports, Nash spent his career at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He's considered a giant in mathematics, particularly in the field of partial differential equations, but won the Nobel Prize in economics for a paper he wrote on game theory, the mathematics of decision-making.

In addition to the Nobel, Nash has won the John von Neumann Theory Prize (1978) and the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research (1999).

Nash was in Norway on Tuesday to receive the Abel Prize for mathematics from King Harald V for his work, along with longtime colleague Louis Nirenberg, on nonlinear partial differential equations.

Nirenberg, reached at his home Sunday, said Nash was a "wonderful mathematician" and person. Nirenberg had just flown back from Norway with the couple. The Nashes were taking a taxi back from the airport, he said. Nirenberg had known the couple since the 1950s.

Alicia Nash was his caretaker while he battled his mental illness. They became mental health care advocates when their son John was also diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Upon learning of the crash, Russell Crowe who was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his role as John Nash took to Twitter to share condolences.

We share in his condolences as the world has indeed just lost one of its most brilliant minds of the past century.

Follows a clip of Nash accepting the Nobel prize in 1994.

 

And here is an interview with Dr. John Nash at the 1st Meeting of Laureates in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany, September 1-4, 2004.

 

What may be one of Nash's last documented media appearances, here is the legendary mathematician speaking at Seton Hall University in 2012.

 

Finally, for those who may be unfamiliar with Nash's life and achievements, here is a National Geographic documentary of the game theory pioneer.

 

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Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:19 | 6126627 ParkAveFlasher
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RIP, as dust returns to dust, so brilliance returns to The Light.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:23 | 6126633 espirit
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ditto.

But how does game theory work with schizophrenia?

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:27 | 6126645 Latina Lover
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What will Greece do now, that Nash has died?

 

BTW, this is a great loss to humanity.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:28 | 6126650 Pladizow
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Should have been a banker, politician or lawyer!

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:31 | 6126658 cossack55
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Redundancy much?

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:33 | 6126663 Pladizow
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The. Only problem you should have had with my sentaance was the word "or"!

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:37 | 6126672 Pool Shark
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Wife of nearly 60 years?

 

I thought he was gay...

 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:05 | 6126730 mrdenis
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Gay's can marry in NJ ....one is the wife ,the other is the husband .....to be decided who's who at a later date .....

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:21 | 6126765 negative rates
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I know not one person who took diffy Q and actually used in it the modern world, great in theory, in practice, not so much.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:24 | 6126772 knukles
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May God always hold him close in the palms of His hands

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:27 | 6126781 Stackers
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Not a bad way to go all things considered. I hope my ending is quick and unexpected at 85+ years old too.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:39 | 6126812 Four chan
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who knew schrodingers box was a taxi.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:39 | 6126971 SafelyGraze
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not only did russell crowe star in the beautiful mind movie, but also that irish actress connelly

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:17 | 6127054 NoDebt
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This calls for stricter gun control laws.  I don't know how, but it will.

Seriously, how long before the calls start for rear passenger seatbelt-ignition interlocks in taxis?  Oh, and a big fine for the cab driver if you don't wear one.  Yeah, baby.  Gimme that revenue.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 15:01 | 6127300 0b1knob
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The Nash equilibrium we all eventually reach.

Mr. Nash has assumed room temperature.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 18:14 | 6127756 wee-weed up
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Anyone who is familiar with anyone who suffers from mental illness has to greatly admire the ordeal this man went through to essentially conquer his.

His was not only a beautiful mind, but a very strong and tenacious one. Beating your own schizophrenia is almost unheard of.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:56 | 6127014 Skateboarder
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I had to pick up dad from SFO airport the other day. Fvcking third worlder African muslim (assumption based on hook nose - could be wrong) taxi driver starts tailing me on the way out to the freeways. Hold on one moment bub, I'm changing lanes, in a place where you're supposed to change lanes for freeway access... but no, dikwipe can't wait the two seconds and starts flashing his lights. So I flip him off, and he goes motherfvcking apeshit and cuts in front of me, doing the typical road-ragey swerving and braking, flips me off with vengeance and wishing the wrath of Allan upon me (if above assumption correct). I ask dad if he got the license plate number. Nope, it happened too fast. "That fvcker is going to go murder some people!", I says.

Reason why I was saying all that is - road-ragey third-worlder taxi cab drivers are going to kill everyone. Fvck Uber, but good riddance to medallion cabs.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 17:55 | 6127711 Thick Willy
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Who would willingly get into a car with a black man in it?  Leftist morons in San Fran I guess.  Reminds me of white girls who travel by themselves to brown countries and are surprised when they get raped.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 22:08 | 6128293 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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I had always planned on punching God in the nose and hoofing him in the shins when I eventually meet him. I hope he's not that big that he could hold Nash in the palm of his hand. How will I punch him in the nose if he is that big? Please revise your specs, knukles.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 16:24 | 6127486 cheech_wizard
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Can't understand the downvotes here... Obviously someone uses differential equations, but in 30 years of electronics engineering I never have.

But on a long enough timeline even the predator - prey relationship falls apart...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_and_moose_on_Isle_Royale

As of 2015, the wolf population was nearly extinct with only three severely inbred wolves present.

 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 16:39 | 6127528 James_Cole
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You work in electric engineering and have never used diff eq? Methinks you have. Maybe not PDE.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:05 | 6126731 Handful of Dust
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"...deterioration of money ...."

 

He must be a terrist talking like that.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 16:33 | 6127509 DanDaley
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Yeah, and "...American schools are inefficient..."  (2nd video above -about 8 minutes in)

 

Talk about understatements.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:53 | 6126860 firewolfsblog
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the gay one was Alan Turing. Nash was probably listening to his wife bickering and asked the Taxi driver to end his misery

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:37 | 6126806 Supafly
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Should have been Russell Crowe.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:20 | 6126932 RafterManFMJ
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I don't even dislike Russell Crowe, and that still made me laugh.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:39 | 6127094 jbvtme
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he already died in les miserables

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:07 | 6127169 Monetas
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Was the taxi driver a Muslim?

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:32 | 6126660 Winston Churchill
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We are not sure.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:44 | 6126830 MayIMommaDogFac...
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But how does game theory work with schizophrenia?

For a schizophrenic, all games are like solitaire and can be played without the hassle of locating other participants.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 15:02 | 6127305 SpiOpsChiwowwow
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Hey. Fuck you too. It's a disability and you are bound to the ADA!

http://www.neontommy.com/news/2014/09/will-new-study-help-end-schizophrenia

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:14 | 6127184 Monetas
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Hillary charges much more for a speech .... but, she's worth it !

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 15:58 | 6127431 Budd aka Sidewinder
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Ponder the difference between Nash and Hillary......one man overcame a debilitating psychological condition to postulate one of the great mathematical theories of our time - all the while being tortured by unseen demons....the other man has spent a lifetime crushing the dreams and souls of countless innocent people for financial, political, and personal gain....the wrong man died in a car crash-----although I can only pray Hillary's ultimate demise is not so quick and painless

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 18:06 | 6127745 caconhma
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Economics and a game theory. This is the central banking mafia tool to fleece entire countries and their citizens from the fruits of their labor.

There is no need of having a Nobel Prize to clearly see the results of these games brought to the world economies. It is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:01 | 6126724 junction
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If instead of a Crown Victoria, the car was a Town Car limousine, the Nashs would have survived the crash.  Ford discontinued the Town Car in 2011, too big a gas hog because it was built like a tank.  

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:15 | 6126751 Buckaroo Banzai
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A Town Car is essentially an upgraded and rebadged Crown Victoria. When Ford discontinued the Town Car, they also discontinued the Crown Vic.

When I lived in NYC, I liked to talk to limo drivers about their jobs. One question I used to ask was, why do all you guys drive Lincoln Town Cars? Because 98% of all car service drivers drove Town Cars. Occassionally you'd see a Cadillac but it was rare. The answer I invariably received was, the economics of running the Town Car were simply superior to any other alternative. It was durable and reliable; it was huge inside and had a giant trunk; parts were ubiquitous and cheap and it was easy to get serviced; and for what it was, it was relatively easy on gas. It was, in short, an outstanding tool for the job.

Thanks to the stupid federal mileage regulations, this superior vehicle is now off the roads. I moved out of NYC long before Ford discontinued the product; I do wonder what drivers are using now and how happy they are about it.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:23 | 6126769 DipshitMiddleCl...
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they drive those faggy toyota hybrids and other toyota variants along with minivans

 

honestly, i think they're probably just as reliable, but...they most def. cost more to maintain

 

 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:47 | 6126843 22winmag
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Indeed, Town Cars are/were in a class by themselves.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 15:54 | 6127428 Hongcha
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Buckaroo; yes the Crown Vic / Towne Car are the finest U.S. - designed autos of the past twenty years.  Great rides.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:51 | 6127002 Bob
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Kind of ironic, when you think about it, Nash being all about optimizing the game and all. 

On the downside of his work, much of modern marketing was built on it, iirc.  Mixed feelings about that, for sure. 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:23 | 6126771 negative rates
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Princton and mit? I would not consider so brilliant, greedy and corrpt yes, but not really brilliant.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:55 | 6126866 Freddie
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Cal Tech is much harder to get into. 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 15:24 | 6127295 SpiOpsChiwowwow
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Yea, yea The Light. How about my light saber shoved down your throat!?

Ah, STFU!

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 17:09 | 6127614 Laowei Gweilo
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yeah, rip.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 17:46 | 6127687 Thick Willy
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He's lucky he was born way back before America was engineered from the ground up to destroy white men.  If he were born in the 70's on he'd be working some shit menial job in West "by god" Virginia with the other "rednecks" (read: white people, it is politically correct to insult white people, especially if they believe in God, are conservative, are male, and not pussies).  Back then the cream rose to the top.  In today's America the "cream" (white people) is just beginning to learn its new place in the post-white American pecking order.  Here's a hint: it ain't anywhere near the top.

I have 0 doubt in my mind that if he were born in the 1970's on he never would have escaped a life of grinding poverty, menial work, unemployment, obesity and alcoholism like the rest of those "filthy red necks" (read: white people) in West Virginia.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:23 | 6126637 DipshitMiddleCl...
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R.I.P

 

why cant this kind of stuff happen to obama or hilary?

 

why does it always seem to happen to the people who make contributions to the world?

 

 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:27 | 6126643 Arnold
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They are but simple psychopaths, lacking in sophistication.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:34 | 6126666 Thirtyseven
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It's amazing though, how the truly intelligent people are those with abnormal minds, which many at first consider to be "wrong".  As someone with an autistic brother I have experienced this first hand.

Of course many of the truly intelligent have so many social and societal issues that their intelligence is often wasted.  I'm glad Nash was able to apply himself and focus on his theories.

If the human race ever makes it off this rock it'll be the abnormals who get us out there....but only if they apply themselves to the task in an environment where they're able/allowed to freely apply themselves.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:55 | 6126869 Coke and Hookers
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Geniuses are pretty much by definition abnormal. A normal mind is usually not able to take the "mental leap" required for true discovery. Most "scientists" today are normal and never discover anything. They don't even challenge the status quo, but prefer to defend it. This is because there are far more "scientists" than the part of the population mentally equipped for the role. However, "clinically" abnormal minds are absolutely no guarantee for inventive thinking whether they be schizophrenic or bipolar. They think they are geniuses but they rarely are.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:41 | 6126977 Dame Ednas Possum
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A genius and not wearing a seatbelt.

The humanity of it...

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:46 | 6127104 ebear
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delete

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:49 | 6127124 ebear
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A genius taking a taxi, especially one whose stock in trade is calculating probabilities.

The alternatives:

Have a friend or company driver pick you up.

Take the airport bus or train if available, taxi for the last mile only.

I never take taxis.  The risks are just too high.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:17 | 6126708 Pool Shark
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You mean it should happen to misanthropic, racist, selfish, snobs who abandon their illegitimate children and treat their mistresses like crap?

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/mar/18/awardsandprizes.highereducation

 

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/04/10/eleanor_stier_84_brookline_nurse_had_son_with_nobel_laureate_mathematician_john_f_nash_jr/

 

[PS: The John Nash from A Beautiful Mind doesn't exist; he's merely a figment of Ron Howard's imagination...]

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 17:53 | 6127709 Thick Willy
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A "misanthropic, racist, selfish, snob"...these definitely sound like the words an inferior subhuman would use to describe someone far more intelligent than himself.  Yes, he was smarter than you.  Most people who can cut through the politically correct groupthink are.  You're a fucking tool and an imbecile.

The discoverer of the double helix in DNA is also a well known "racist."  What is it with white people with genius level IQs and being "racist?"  Then again, it doesn't take a super intellect to recognize differences between races.  You just can't be a brain washed moron suffering from infinite cognitive dissonance (so this turtle over here has a small stripe on its shell while this one over there doesn't but in all other ways they are identical, these are different species.  But a 7 foot tall coal black man with frazzled hair and 70 IQ IS THE EXACT SAME as this white red headed guy over here with 110 IQ.  Yep, the EXACT same).

People like you are so stupid I definitely don't consider us the same species.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 16:26 | 6127492 tired1
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I read a story about a chicken that lived for 1 1/2 months after its' head was cut off. Possibly related.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:26 | 6126640 CarpetShag
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"Nash" is Russian for "our".
This man, as a Nobel Laureate, can stand in history shoulder to shoulder with the leader of the free world, Barack Obama.
/s

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:27 | 6126646 Thirtyseven
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If pronounced like: Nah'sh.

Close.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:48 | 6126691 CarpetShag
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My impression from listening to Russian - and I'm not fluent conversationally- is that the pronunciation of the "a" in a phrase like "nash droog" - our friend - the "a" would probably sound in between the English "a" in "hat" and the "a" in "vast" (British pronunciation) Pity ZH doesn't permit Cyrillic, given it's pro-Russian stance. IMO transliteration of Russian words from Cyrillic to the Roman alphabet doesn't work well.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:43 | 6126982 Divine Wind
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The H is silent like the P in swimming.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:11 | 6127176 Thirtyseven
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The Slavic 'A' is always pronounced like the one in "Father".  Always.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:29 | 6126653 q99x2
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 King Harald Vs wife has cloven hooves.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:31 | 6126654 Catullus
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Sad

Get in a cab. Put on a fucking seatbelt. Don't trust whomever is driving or other drivers. It's just like going for a rough ride Freddie Grey style.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:46 | 6126692 rehypothecator
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I don't know about NJ cabs, but many NYC cabs don't even have seatbelts.  But they're regulated and licensed, and have medallions, so it's all good. 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:50 | 6126705 CarpetShag
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Don't they have a plastic bubble partition, to prevent you from puking on the driver?

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 17:45 | 6127678 Arnold
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Formaldehyde foam encapsulation in New Jersey.

Way ahead of California.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:31 | 6126657 Smegley Wanxalot
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So ... what did he do to piss off the NSA and deserve this?

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:36 | 6126673 Keynesians say ...
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Obligatory "We crashed some folks"

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 15:27 | 6127371 Clampit
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You sure it was the NSA?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_money

 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:35 | 6126668 sidiji
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lol, so what does game theory say about not wearing your seat belts?

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:40 | 6126682 Urban Redneck
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actually nothing, unless the opponent is someone other than a guard rail.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:30 | 6126786 Freddie
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Sounds like the taxi driver was not being careful.  Maybe he should have used Uber?

RIP.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:39 | 6126677 Kirk2NCC1701
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Nonlinear Partial Differential equations? 

What other kind are there, besides nonlinear? 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:45 | 6126684 Flakmeister
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Linear....

Do you know what linear and non-linear even mean in the context of PDEs?

I'll give you a hint, Maxwells equations are linear, Einsteins are not...

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:18 | 6126924 knukles
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The original or truncated Maxwell equations? 
Just curious.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:30 | 6127074 Flakmeister
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Beg pardon?

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 21:15 | 6128182 StychoKiller
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James Clerk Maxwell orginally derived his equations using quaternions.  Heavyside, and others "simplified" them by using using vectors, so there's a lot of missing mathematics in the popular forms of Maxwell's equations.

Mon, 05/25/2015 - 11:06 | 6129242 Flakmeister
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Are you suggesting that any physics was lost? Seriously.

Working with quaternions is for masochists...

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:57 | 6126716 CarpetShag
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Good to be partial to all differential equations.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:24 | 6126729 Urban Redneck
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Perhaps in the real world or hard sciences, but not in economics.  Linearity is right up there with ceteris paribus in terms of setting off my bullshit detector (e.g. NKPC).

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:39 | 6126813 Flakmeister
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Linearity has to do with the linear superposition of two solutions and/or when the function and derivatives appears only as a linear terms. A linear DE can have sin_theta or e^x as solution and those functions are clearly not linear... 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:51 | 6126854 Bollixed
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Ditto...

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:05 | 6126890 MayIMommaDogFac...
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I think CarpetShag was just going for some wordplay -- just sayin'.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:08 | 6126899 Flakmeister
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It was not directed that way....

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:48 | 6126994 CarpetShag
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Shit, need a new tag for wordplay / wp

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:32 | 6127077 Flakmeister
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It was directed at UR....

Jeezus....

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:04 | 6127031 Urban Redneck
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Are you only making a mathemathical statement or are you defending the applicability or validity of the New Kenynesian Phillips Curve (which is [consequently] consistent with your statement)?  My example was more calculated than the apparently flippant language that preceded it.  (Although apparently not calculated enough in light of the article just posted on drilling efficiency and oil prices...)

 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:39 | 6127095 Flakmeister
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Quit being a poseur..

The Philips Curve was empirically derived with post facto differential equation based models hypothesized to fit the data...

A very big difference....

And this is by no means a defense of economists....

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:40 | 6127249 Urban Redneck
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Quit being an economics poseur (and a math snob).

 

The NKPC is to the Phillips curve as quantum mechanics is to Newtonian physics.  (They're still trying to make NKPC models that actually fit the historical data.)

 

And that is by no means an elevation of economic theory to the relevance of theoretical physics.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 15:12 | 6127333 NeedleDickTheBu...
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It was my understanding that there would be no math......

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:44 | 6126687 Flakmeister
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All things must pass, but the Jersey Turnpike? So unbefitting...

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:02 | 6126725 hroerekr
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May God rest his soul! A great mind is no longer with us!

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:07 | 6126735 waterwitch
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Game over.

RIP

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:07 | 6126737 Dapper Dan
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OT

Game theory ?

Greece won’t meet IMF repayments in June, interior minister says.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/greece-wont-meet-imf-repayments-in-june-interior-minister-says-2015-05-24?mod=MethodeStories&link=sfmw

 

Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis told privately owned television station Mega that Greece is scheduled to repay EUR1.6 billion ($1.76 billion) to the IMF between June 5-19, but the payments cannot be met.

“This money will not be given,” he said. “It does not exist.”


Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:16 | 6126761 StopBeingParanoid
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If I were one of those many paranoids who populate ZH's comment, I'd insinuate it was a message sent by secret services to Varoufakis: at 86 Nash lived long enough, he could have been sacrificed almost without guilt in order to send a message to his Greek disciple, who seems about to send the world's economy haywire

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:37 | 6126805 Chuck Knoblauch
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I thought he was already dead.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:21 | 6126933 Atomizer
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Your confusing John Nash with Edward Bernays. He died in 1995. 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:50 | 6126997 CarpetShag
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of kidney failure?

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:38 | 6126810 Chuck Knoblauch
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I thought he was already dead.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 11:49 | 6126850 firewolfsblog
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I blame Russian spies

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:00 | 6126881 roadhazard
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3

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:05 | 6126889 besnook
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the game ends at zero hedge.

math-the purest genius, the source of all genius. everything is numbers.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:13 | 6126911 Atomizer
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Prisoners dilemma theory was stolen by academic professionals, then retracted for fear that the economic community would learn how Central Bankers openly operate. 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:16 | 6126917 Atomizer
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John Nash was discredited for the remaining years of his life. 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:25 | 6126940 Fidel Castrol
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memo to taxi driver: please take hillary on your next fare

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:30 | 6126950 besnook
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and jeb and cruz and paul and...............and huckabee, please. i'll pay his fare.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:15 | 6127049 Freddie
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Don't forget Rubio, all the clintons and all the Bushes.

 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:50 | 6126999 CarpetShag
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LOL +10

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:30 | 6126951 Yen Cross
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 Even in death's throes, he was proving linear concepts as he was ejected through the windshield into a 'Guard Rail' on the Jersey TP.

 RIP's >Mr.& Mrs. Nash

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:40 | 6126972 Joebloinvestor
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When I was doing statistical sampling, I was told that he was responsible for developing the formula(s).

Mil spec 105D.

RIP.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:42 | 6126979 diana_in_spain
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More proof of the dangers of highway driving. This is why we need more trains

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:46 | 6126990 Atomizer
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Or a Google autonomous car to stear your fate over a cliff. 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:48 | 6126995 thunderchief
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Glad he lived a long life and it was sudden.

Hope he wasn't arguing with his wife just then, but wouldn't bet on it.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:57 | 6127016 Hubbs
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Always thought that his game theory applied squarely to current events and why we have been "stalemated" for so long, a lot longer than many experts who had been calling for a crash long before now, have been proven wrong....thus far.

 Simply put, no party is going to change its behavior as long as it perceives that the other parties are not going to change theirs. Right now we are in a Mexican Standoff , e.g., Russia vs US in Ukraine , or Russia, ISIS, Iran  vs US and  Israel in the Middle East ,  or China vs US and Japan et al in the South China Sea, or all the world's Central Banks and elites vs the peasents/middle class.

Stakes too high and so no one really changes their behavior. Not cooperative, but one based on fear.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:02 | 6127025 GoldBricker
Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:16 | 6127053 Freddie
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If I call Uber - can i request a native English speaking American driver or will they think I am a racialist?

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:24 | 6127064 Bam_Man
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I wonder what Third World shithole the taxi driver was from.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 16:08 | 6127450 HowdyDoody
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Texass?

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:32 | 6127078 Counterpunch
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RIP, you beautiful son of a bitch.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 13:47 | 6127116 Chuck Knoblauch
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I thought he was dead already.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:16 | 6127189 tony wilson and...
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sea how you mules get manipulated.
not even by the master rabbi speel burg but by fucking richy cunlingus from happy days ron fuckin howard come on donkeys.
rip my arse the guy was a mason off the reservation and he got tony sopranoed by the cia wet works fuck me taxi cab whack boston brakes you ponies buyin dat shite funny.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:20 | 6127199 Arnold
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Bot needs work, brother.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:33 | 6127228 Monetas
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Leftists get particularly vile .... on Memorial day, the 4th of July, Frank Sinatra's birthday .... in this case .... the loss of a national treasure .... warm and fuzzy aren't they ?

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:17 | 6127193 Monetas
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He never finished his work .... for the coveted .... Nobel Peace Prize !

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:25 | 6127212 Monetas
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So, the taxi driver must have been wearing a seat belt .... but, the Nash's weren't .... I ask .... was the taxi driver a Muslim .... we should know more about him .... he might be culpable of negligent homicide .... or worse ?

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:25 | 6127213 scatha
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It may be too soon for ZH crowd but since Tyler probably will not come back to this subject so I will say it now.

John Nash (1928-2015)

The book and the movie “Beautiful Mind” is beautiful if it only was true. Unfortunately it is not.

Even some fundamental questions that authors could not hide despite their significant efforts were never answered or addressed. I will just touch the surface here.

The elephant in the room is the fact that in fifties 90+ percent of Ivy League school faculties in scientific fields were secretly or not so secretly militarized and co-opted to work for national security establishment. It was common practice openly discussed on faculty meetings to coordinate research and education programs to produce scientific soldiers using DoD funding. Much better known now, with comparable operational procedures, was similar program of militarization of soviet science and technology.

What we also know is that especially after Rosenbergs affair 1953, the counter espionage hysteria reached zenith on both sides and often was based on false accusation and as a consequence broke mentally many scientist, who began to doubt about sense or goals of these top secret programs. What they often saw was not national defense but totalitarian degeneration of power structure, power and control without checks and balances becoming the only objective even if it would senselessly endanger human race.

Executions of hundreds of scientist during in the midst of cold war and countless others “tortured” within soviet mental hospital system after being “diagnosed: with schizophrenia, paranoid delusions or other equally made up illnesses were revealed in early 1990-ties as a systematic methods to silence descent.

In this context beautiful story of John Nash seems to be hollow like Swiss cheese.

Nash was very sensitive person all along, with soul of art rather than science even in adulthood. He seemingly never grew up. He was very talented and passionate in all the fields of academic excellence but mostly due to complete social isolation in childhood and in adolescent life similarly to Bobby Fisher. Even in his twenties he was practically unaware of social strive, authority, money and power that define position of individual in the society. His choice of mathematics was not due to particular interest in the field but rather a way to avoid hard choice, to avoid giving up on something, not knowing precisely what it was to give up. He wanted to hide from compromise, avoiding what for him amounted to a guess with consequences for the rest of his life, a choice expected from every ordinary adult.

But genius he was not. He used his extraordinary faculty mostly to please others but most of all himself. It was clearly shown during his graduate study when he excelled in everything he was assigned to but had extreme difficulty regarding his original idea for dissertation work, which almost cost him PhD degree. He did not have this arrogant, unconstrained drive toward his objective, with razor sharp focus, no matter what, against all odds, with all priories rescinded, often self-destructive attitude that is common among scientific geniuses.

Such sensitive man exposed to strict, production-like academic schedule as well as extremely restricting military rigor of DoD research into cryptography and pattern recognition would definitely develop internal moral conflicts, which in his case may have resulted in what we would call “mental instability” and hence becoming potential threat to security of classified information he was privy to.

Whether or not he was abused and simply silenced by US national security establishment in manner similar to his fellow Russian conscientious objectors who were tortured in Soviet mental institutions I do not now, but it is viable question which we all hope to hear by reading his memoirs if they are ever published.

As philosopher David Hume already concluded in XVII century after studying mental institutions in Europe, for many patients diagnosed with so-called mental diseases, including schizophrenia, the disease represented patient way out of conundrum where no acceptable moral choice can be made into world of insanity.

If this is so, that would explain Nash’s miraculous recovery extraordinary in annals of psychiatry that never recorded such a case in 350 years. In other words this would mean that he was never mentally ill in the first place and simply chose this kind of way out from his life predicament.

Unfortunately, highly regarded back then but truly barberian treatment, including electrical and chemical shocks in US mental hospitals destroyed Nash’s mathematical and other abilities so during following decades he barely recover basic mathematical skills at Ph.D. level and mentally recovered mostly due to love and care of those around him who new that old brilliant John Nash was gone forever.

The Price in economics and recognition (not really a Nobel price) from Stockholm University Economics Department heavily endowed by Wall Street bankers, definitely helped him in his mental recovery but it was a cruel joke played on public by Wall Street that used his dissertation research to lend support for bankers insane drive for gambling profits which was against Nash’s original intention.

John Nash had gentle and beautiful mind if we look beyond prejudices of mental disease and horrors of system of enslavement and repression of mind but there was much to his life, suffering and struggle that we are still do not know.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:41 | 6127253 Monetas
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Your exquisitely poor taste .... is only exceeded .... by your irrelevance, irreverance and impertinence !

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:36 | 6127233 tony wilson and...
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After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen.
We live inside an enormous bland turgid novel.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:44 | 6127261 Monetas
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I am not ruled by your fiction ! LOL

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:37 | 6127241 Iam Yue2
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Ultimate equilibrium.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 14:46 | 6127267 In.Sip.ient
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When I hear someone actually died in a Crown Victoria, I almost

immediately get seriously suspicious.  It requires really serious

wallops to take out the passengers of a vehicle like that!

 

Then I read "no seat belts" and "ejected from vehicle"...

Hmmm... Isn't it almost as hard to get out of a CV

as it is for an impact to penetrate inward???

 

Just asking...

 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 15:28 | 6127378 tony wilson and...
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saturnalia
kabballa la la numbers
rabbinickle anger
= executive action
we at the parralax corporation have a portfolio of accident options for offender of the talmoo and tora bora

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 15:36 | 6127395 reader2010
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Like most Americans,  I'm bit retarded. Fuck I dont understand shit. 

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 15:49 | 6127422 Skip
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“Beautiful Mind” Mathematician Killed In Crash By Egyptian Immigrant Taxi Driver–And Everybody’s Talking About Seatbelts

What you need to know about Egyptian taxi drivers in America is this–there are more of them every day, and it’s illegal to discriminate against them.

See also Bob Simon Crash Driver: Afghan Immigrant with Multiple License Suspensions and One Functioning Arm

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 18:04 | 6127734 Thick Willy
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Not so smart if he got into a taxi driven by some Muslim immigrant.

I occasionally use taxis but I always make sure the person driving is white, and preferably a native of the country I'm in at the time.

I did ride in a taxi driven by a black immigrant in D.C. once.  He turned Left on red and then was like, "oh shit."

NEVER again.  Never.  You people are throwing your life away if you get into a cab driven by some mudperson.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 16:34 | 6127512 Inbetween is pain
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Why so few ZH conspiracy theories? After all, on ZH, no one of importance can die by accident or natural causes.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 18:05 | 6127739 Thick Willy
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False flag by the lizard people in conjunction with the reverse vampires to kill Nash before his Ideal Money could be released!

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 18:22 | 6127788 Barley Burnside
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John Nash was taken out by a CIA squad during operation "snufnash". He was in the process of writing an equation that showed "with all things being equal" that the American public (x-2) divided by the two party system (d+r) =[fucked]...

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 18:24 | 6127794 Barley Burnside
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He and his wife will be buried at sea with no autopsy and no next of kin viewing the bodies.

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 16:45 | 6127547 Argentumentum
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Just a friendly reminder, there is no such thing as Nobel Prize in Economics because Nobel did not consider economics a science...

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 22:18 | 6128318 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Thanks for Nash Equilibrium, and the Game Theory work, Professor Emeritus John Nash. Sorry to hear that probability eventually caught up with you for not wearing your seatbelt, Professor.

 

SAFETY FIRST.............Smokey the Bear

Sun, 05/24/2015 - 22:50 | 6128377 IronForge
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Rest in Peace, Professor and Mrs Nash.

Sorry the accident happened; but I'm glad you're not suffering in pain.

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