Economic Fables by Ariel Rubinstein

Author:Ariel Rubinstein [Rubinstein, Ariel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-04-06T19:03:32+00:00

November 1994

I sat in my office at Princeton. It was evening, the door was open. John Nash walked by in the hallway and seemed to be looking for something. He entered my room and asked politely whether I knew the fax number of someone at Stockholm University. The number he had was a six-digit number and since all telephone and fax numbers in the U.S. have seven digits, Nash figured that there was a digit missing in the number he had. Based on what I knew, I explained to him that in Stockholm the telephone and fax numbers have six digits (as they did at the time). He felt relieved. I exploited the moment to do something that I had wanted to do for quite a while and had not dared. I mustered the courage and handed him a copy of a text book about game theory that I had written together with Martin Osborne. Nash took the book. I do not remember him thanking me. He mentioned that he already had two books on game theory on his shelf and now he would have “two plus one = three books.” And then, leafing through the book, he said in surprise: “I see that my name appears here.”

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