John Arthur Luetscher, Jr (1913-2005)

Mr. Ralph Arthur John Baily

John Forbes Nash Jr . ( 1928 – 2015 )

John Forbes Nash Jr. was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, on June 13, 1928 and was named after his father, who was an electrical engineer. His mother, Margaret Virginia (née Martin), was a school teacher before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. After attending the standard schools in Bluefield, Nash entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mell...

John Newport 1951–2005

The news is so full of lives cut short that one might worry that we have become inured to the experience. But cold reality asserts itself when a premature death strikes within our own community, and the full tragedy and the wasted opportunity are exposed. We then pause to mark the singularity of human existence and the personal nature of science itself. John Newport, distinguished professor of ...

Mathematicians as Great Economists : John Forbes Nash , Jr . Matthew

ly conceived, a two-person bargaining problem consists of a set of feasible contracts, with associated payoffs to each bargainer. As Edgeworth, von Neumann and Morgenstern, and others had observed, it is reasonable to suppose that the chosen contract will satisfy: • Efficiency: No other feasible contract offers both bargainers a higher payoff. However, this requirement typically leaves a large ...

John H. Gibbon, Jr., Lecture: leadership in medicine.