1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Acceptance Address
Nash: Thank you. I've always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason.
But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask, "What truly is logic? Who decides reason?"
My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional -- and back.
And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
I'm only here tonight because of you [his wife, Alicia].
You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons.
Thank you.
中文翻譯
1994年度的諾貝爾經(jīng)濟學(xué)獎,授予美國普林斯頓大學(xué)數(shù)學(xué)系的納什教授等三位對博弈論作出奠基性貢獻的學(xué)者。好萊塢大制作《美麗心靈》A Beautiful Mind說的就是納什的故事。
寫的是一個叫納什的天才。納什在三十歲之前就已經(jīng)成為數(shù)學(xué)界響當(dāng)當(dāng)?shù)娜宋?,可是卻在三十歲之后得上了嚴(yán)重的精神分裂癥。這時學(xué)界開始出現(xiàn)了一大堆以納什命 名的術(shù)語,什么納什均衡、納什程序、納什談判解、納什嵌入等,可是這時的納什已經(jīng)從學(xué)界消失,所以引用他文章的青年數(shù)學(xué)家、經(jīng)濟學(xué)家都以為他已經(jīng)死了。他 當(dāng)然沒有死,他只是得了精神分裂,整天在普林斯頓閑逛,在黑板上寫一些奇怪的符號,偶爾也會露一露天才的本相,或者發(fā)布他收到的外星智慧發(fā)給他的最新密 碼。
由于納什夫人的愛心的呵護,他的病情終于逐漸逐漸好轉(zhuǎn),最后于1994年獲得諾貝爾獎。本演講是影片中納什領(lǐng)取諾貝爾獎時候的致辭。