John Nash’s Tremendous Quick PhD Thesis: 26 Pages & Two Citations

When John Nash wrote “Non-Coop­er­a­tive Video games,” his Ph.D. dis­ser­ta­tion at Prince­ton in 1950, the textual content of his the­sis (learn it on-line) was temporary. It ran solely 26 pages. And extra par­tic­u­lar­ly, it was gentle on cita­tions. Nash’s diss cit­ed two texts: John von Neu­mann and Oskar Mor­gen­stern’s The­o­ry of Video games and Eco­nom­ic Behav­ior (1944), which essen­tial­ly cre­at­ed sport the­o­ry and…