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"Beautiful Mind, Formidable Intellect," by Ivy Zhang. Beijing Today, 23 August 2002.
This local English-language newspaper covers Nash's invited talk to an audience
of about 2,000 at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians, held in
Beijing in Augsut 2002. Nash's one-hour public lecture, Studying Cooperation
in Games via Agencies, also presented at a previous satellite conference,
was based on his work in game theory, "a method used all over the world today
by economists, businesses and governments to study multiple-person
non-cooperative interactions by studying two-person cooperative games." As the
talk's subject was quite specialized, many in the audience--including many
mathematicians--did not understand much of it. Nevertheless, Nash was
well-received, and his talk was followed by a couple questions from the
audience and then a TV interview. The article notes that outside the auditorium
more than 100 copies of the Chinese edition of were sold.
The second half of the article contains a lengthy profile of Nash and a summary
of his work.
--- Annette Emerson
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