Nash equilibrium

[Peggy Holman]

On a completely new subject, has anyone seen the new movie A Beautiful Mind?  There was a line John Nash speaks to describe the theory that ultimately won him a Nobel Prize that sounded to me like a description of open space at work.

In the movie, he said something like:
"If our individual objectives and collective objective align, then we all win."

I checked out a site that defined the "Nash Equilibrium" in Game Theory as:
A Nash equilibrium is a strategy profile having the property that no player can strictly benefit from unilaterally changing its strategy, while all other players stay fixed. 

What intrigues me is that I think someone used mathematics to prove out the usefulness of open space.

Anyone familiar enough with Game Theory to confirm this?

Peggy


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