Organic Analysis. Volume 4 (Mitchell, John Jr.; Kolthoff, I. M.)

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...

Whitehead , Jr . , Kenneth M . Anderson ,

Want to launch a virtual enterprise using the Web as your technology infrastructure? First learn what's missing from today's Web architecture and which extensions are needed for large-scale collaboration. T he WorldWide Web connects islands of information, along with the people seeking that information, from within corporate intranets and across the global Internet, easily and effectively. Shar...

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.

John H. Gibbon, Jr., M.D.: surgical innovator, pioneer, and inspiration.