In article ,
Jim Menegay  wrote:
>When traditional game 
>theorists first became aware of how biology had reinterpreted the 
>meaning of mixed strategies, they considered this a major innovation -
>nothing like this had been published before.  But then someone looked
>back at Nash's PhD. dissertation, and discovered that Nash had 
>suggested this "mass action" interpretation way back around 1950 in
>his dissertation, but had never published it in a journal article.
>All this and more is described in Nash's Nobel prize seminar:
>
>http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/nash-lecture.html

One should note, without diminishing the value of that lecture, that
the seminar involved talks by several other people, and the material
in question is described (well) by Eric Van Damme, not by Nash himself.

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Joe Felsenstein         joe{at}removethispart.gs.washington.edu
 Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology,
 University of Washington, Box 357730, Seattle, WA 98195-7730 USA
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