PaperHex
Non-Cooperative Games
John F. Nash Jr., PhD thesis, Princeton University, 1950 (published in Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 54, 1951, pp. 286–295)
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Nash's doctoral thesis, foundational for game theory. The strategy-stealing argument for Hex — proving first-player wins without exhibiting a strategy — appears in the surrounding Princeton folklore and was later formalised in published form.
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The Academy · May 27, 2026
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