Nobel Laureate visits the Institute for International Integration Studies

Posted on: 15 April 2005

Professor John Nash, Nobel Laureate in Economics in 1994, visited the Institute for International Integration Studies on Friday, April 8 th, where he read a paper on “Ideal Money”. Professor Nash, who is based in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University, was in Dublin to deliver one of the Royal Irish Academy / Hamilton lectures. This lecture was delivered to a crowded Burke Theatre on Wednesday evening on the topic: An Interesting Equation. Professor Nash’s contribution to the development of game theory in his PhD thesis written in the 1950s has had a fundamental influence on many areas of economics, particularly in the past two decades. His life has been the subject of an award-winning biography by Sylvia Nasar entitled: A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash , which in turn was the basis for the Oscar- winning film A Beautiful Mind.