John Forbes Nash, In game theory, Nash equilibrium

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nash(named after John Forbes Nash, who proposed it) is a solution concept of a game involving two or more players, in which each player is assumed to know the equilibrium strategies of the other players, and no player has anything to gain by changing only his or her own strategy unilaterally. If each player has chosen a strategy and no player can benefit by changing his or her strategy while the other players keep theirs unchanged, then the current set of strategy choices and the corresponding payoffs constitute a Nash equilibrium.

Adam Curtis of the BBC

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The series consists of three one-hour programmes which explore the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, “how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today’s idea of freedom.”


PART 1 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=404227395387111085#

PART 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=404227395387111085#docid=-1087742888040457650

PART 3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8389886774314947871&ei=jTKlSqK6PJv-qAPv4JDCBA&q=THE+TRAP+3#

Adam Curtis (born 1955) is a British television documentary maker who has during the course of his television career worked as a writer, producer, director and narrator. He currently works for BBC Current Affairs. His programmes express a clear (and sometimes controversial) opinion about their subject, and he narrates the programmes himself.

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