This week I’ve watched again the biographical movie “A Beautiful Mind“, based on the biography by Sylvia Nasar ([]).
I don’t know if you have watched as well, but in the movie, when he’s told he’s been awarded the Nobel (actually, The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) he seems disapointed because of the nature of the prize being the “Nash Equilibrium” and not any of his other mathematical developments. Any idea?.
John Nash’s brief autobiography.
Thanks!
Carrying on with the Taylor’s biography reading, plus some other books I’ve being turning the pages of, I’ve just arrived to an interesting abstract of the last millennium labour productivity history:
1) At the beginning men were machines.
2) Then, machines helped men.
3) Afterwards, machines enslaved men.
4) Finally, men and machines have learned to cooperate.
Until when…?.
Have you ever heard of “scientific management”?. Do you know who Frederick W Taylor was?. Well, you have heard of Henry Ford and the Fordism, so I can tell you he was an amateur compared to Mr Taylor, the father of the infinite search for the efficiency.
Robert Kanigel (author of ‘Apprentice to Genius’ and ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’, and a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist) has recently published a brilliant biography of Mr Taylor (worth your money).
A freebie: Chapter 1 excerpt.
Keep the productivity up, catch up with the efficiency, rule the world. Mr Taylor would be proud of YOU!.
