Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Nash Equilibrium

Optimality --
doing what's best for you and
what's best for the group.
Today's Poem: A Haiku


Today's inspiration: Adam Smith's philosophy that society benefits most when every person acts out of his or her own self-interest is overturned by John Nash's theory of an optimal collective strategy (Nash equilibrium) in A Beautiful Mind--Hollywood's tale of Nash's triumph over economics, love, and schizophrenia.