Example sentences for: nash

How can you use “nash” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nash took the Princeton math department by storm in the '40s and '50s and is often considered the godfather of game theory.

  • According to Nash, true wit must meet the following standards: (1) The practitioner must have a quick mind, (2) The witticism must be stated within a very tight framework, and (3) It is characterized by four common rhetorical devices: parallelism, antithesis, definition, and quasi-philosophical propositions, an example being Woody Allen's line, Not only is God dead, but try getting a plumber on Sunday.

  • The eeriest thing I discovered while reading this superb book was that Nash and I came within a couple of years of crossing paths in a Virginia mental hospital.

  • David Geffen, in the Rolling Stone "Millennium" issue: "Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young records will be listened to for many years."

  • Nash pioneered game theory, became schizophrenic, recovered, then won a Nobel Prize late in life.


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