This is a great obituary and summary of John Nash’s seminal research brought to you by the guys and gals over at FiveThirtyEight. My favorite part comes at the very end:
“But his greatest accomplishment may be the role he played in the emergence of a whole new and important way of thinking about the world and the things that happen in it.”
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/why-john-nash-matters/