Economics · Game Theory & Mechanism Design
A topic within Game Theory & Mechanism Design, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Economics.
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John F. Nash
Every finite game has at least one equilibrium point at which no player can gain by changing strategy alone, proved in barely two pages using a fixed-point theorem.
2 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyJohn F. Nash
Proves, via Kakutani's fixed-point theorem, that every finite non-cooperative game has at least one equilibrium point in mixed strategies, and develops equilibrium as the general solution concept the 1950 note only sketched.
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