(For those unaware, John Nash is the subject of the movie A Beautiful Mind)
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Letter of recommendation for John Nash to Princeton University
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Wow the shortest one
"He is a mathematical genius." I don't think you'd write that unless he could back it up.
but i like that there's literally no evidence offered to back up the claim, like "please find attached his school records" or anything. he is a genius, for real y'all, just trust me on this one.
Interesting. Something similar happened to Persi Diaconis, who quote, "was admitted to Harvard University’s graduate statistics program on the strength of a recommendation letter from the famed mathematics writer Martin Gardner that said, more or less, “This kid invented two of the best ten card tricks in the last decade, so you should give him a chance.”" [ https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150414-for-persi-diaconis-next-magic-trick/ ]
Postwar Carnegie Tech faculty were not paragons of character judges.
+James Salsman What do you regard as the problem with Nash's character?
+Gerry Roe I have no problem with Nash, but CIT faculty in the 50s was so firmly in the pocket of the military industrial complex that good teachers opposed to cheerleading the cold war conflicts in Korea and Europe were often shunned and many left. Luckily by the time Vietnam rolled around there was a lot more institutionalized skepticism of imperialism.
We have not finished with Nash Equilibria. When big data crunching starts calculating them for really big games we are going to see some rapid and radical change.