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John Nash
A 21-year-old's 28-page thesis gave every finite game an equilibrium and reshaped economics. Nash equilibrium, the bargaining solution, deep work in geometry, decades of schizophrenia, and a late Nobel and Abel Prize.
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Prereqs: Nash equilibrium; Mixed strategies (Game Theory). Next: Alan Turing. Sources: Sylvia Nasar's *A Beautiful Mind* (1998), Nash's 1950 *PNAS* paper and Nobel autobiography.Next: 1. Life