I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

His parents and grandparents provided books and encyclopedias that he learned from. The two mathematicians met each other at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University during the summer of 1956. These studies led to four articles:
Nash JF (1950) "Equilibrium Points in N-person Games" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 36 (36): 48–9 doi:10.

Thus further time passed. Hironaka called "the Nash blowing-up transformation"; and those of "Arc Structure of Singularities" and "Analyticity of Solutions of Implicit Function Problems with Analytic Data". (born June 13 1928) is an American mathematician whose works in game theory differential geometry and partial differential equations have provided insight into the forces that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life.