A fellow graduate student of John Nash’s at Princeton, Lloyd Shapley is a veteran, a Harvard graduate, and, by the time he arrives at Princeton, one of the “brightest young star[s] in game theory research.” Nasar draws comparisons between Shapley and Nash, noting that Shapley, like Nash, has a “violent temper” and a “harshly self-critical streak.” Yet Shapley is also an intense perfectionist, which ultimately dampens his career as a mathematician, since he is unable to publish much of his research (Nash, though, publishes research as a young graduate student).
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Lloyd Shapley Character Timeline in A Beautiful Mind
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Foreword
...about Nash, Nasar was able to obtain interviews with his friends, family, and colleagues. Lloyd Shapley, a mathematician who knew Nash as a graduate student, described Nash as “immature” and “obnoxious”...
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Chapter 11 – Lloyd
...attachments” he would come to form with other men, mostly mathematicians, throughout his life—with Lloyd Shapley.
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Shapley is a veteran and Harvard graduate who had also worked at the RAND corporation, a...
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Though Nash’s thesis idea attracts a great deal of attention, it is Shapley who is viewed as “the real star of the next generation” of mathematicians, by von...
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Chapter 12 – The War of Wits
...journey in an airplane: he is to become a consultant for the RAND corporation, where Shapley had worked. “The original think tank,” RAND’s employees intended to “think the unthinkable,” coming up...
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