Nash Equilibrium (film)

Earliest known poster for the film Nash Equilibrium. [Image by Chaos @chaosprime]

Nash Equilibrium is a 2002 science fiction game theory film about a Mathematics Enforcement Officer (Christian Bale) in a future where citizens take daily injections of powerful psychoactive drugs to suppress the solution of a non-cooperative game in which each player is assumed to know the equilibrium strategies of the other players, and no one has anything to gain by changing only one's own strategy.

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Fiction cross-reference

• Be Dutiful, Mania
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Schelling Point Break
• The Lord of the Matrix Rings
• The P-Value Man

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Game theory (nonfiction)
• Mathematics (nonfiction)
• John Nash (nonfiction)

External links

• Equilibrium @ Wikipedia
• Equilibrium - trailer @ YouTube
• Nash equilibrium @ Wikipedia.com
• Game Theory 101: What Is a Nash Equilibrium? (Stoplight Game) @ YouTube

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