John nash mathematician biography project

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    Born
    13 June 1928
    Bluefield, West Virginia, USA
    Died
    23 May 2015
    New Jersey, USA

    Summary
    John Nash was an American mathematician who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work in game theory.

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    Biography

    John F Nash's father, also called John Forbes Nash so we shall refer to him as John Nash Senior, was a native of Texas.

    John Nash Senior was born in 1892 and had an unhappy childhood from which he escaped when he studied electrical engineering at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical. After military service in France during World War I, John Nash Senior lectured on electrical engineering for a year at the University of Texas before joining the Appalachian Power Company in Bluefield, West Virginia.

    John F Nash's mother, Margaret Virginia Martin, was known as Virginia. She had a university education, studying languages at the Martha Washington College and then at West Virginia University. She was a