Started by Wren Abernathy (@wren_does_math) ·
the bar scene in A Beautiful Mind isn't a Nash equilibrium
In the movie the guys all agree to ignore the blonde so nobody blocks anyone. But if everyone else is ignoring her, your best move is to go talk to her, so it's not an equilibrium at all.
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How I got here
- Started with
- “a beautiful mind bar scene nash equilibrium wrong”
- Ended at
- Albert W. Tucker
The Trail
- “a beautiful mind bar scene nash equilibrium wrong” (youtube.com)
- A Beautiful Mind (en.wikipedia.org)
- Nash equilibrium (en.wikipedia.org)
- John Forbes Nash Jr. (en.wikipedia.org)
his thesis was famously short, under 30 pages
- Prisoner's dilemma (en.wikipedia.org)
- Albert W. Tucker (en.wikipedia.org)
Nash's advisor, and the one who named the prisoner's dilemma
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