Book review of the day: the essential John Nash

What

A short intro followed by Nash's PhD thesis and a collection of his most important papers.

Where

Buy it at Amazon

Why

So the next time you're having trouble filling in the blank in "If you think you're so smart why don't you ...", you can hand them your copy.

But

Amazon's readers give the book 4 1/2 stars. Maybe you missed something as you were flipping pages looking for a lay explanation of his papers.

Right

This quote is representative of those reviewers' comments:

Chapter 12, 'Continuity of Solutions of Parabolic and Elliptic Equations' is like 'dessert' for anyone who is intensely interested (as I am) in modular functions.

I'm sure readers of this blog have a passing fancy at best with elliptic equations.