At that time, while Nash himself was in a fantastic mental state, his name began to appear in various fields of economics textbooks, evolutionary biology papers, political science monographs and mathematical journals in the 1970s and 1980s. His name has become a noun in economics or mathematics, such as Nash Equilibrium, Nash Negotiation Solution, Nash Scheme, Degeorge-Nash Result, Nash Embedding and Nash Breaking.
Nash's game theory is becoming more and more influential, but he himself is unknown. Most young mathematicians and economists who use his theory take it for granted that he has died according to the publication date of his paper. Even if some people know
Donald Nash is still alive, but because of his special illness and state, they also regard Nash as a dying cripple.
In the late 1980s, Nash gradually recovered from madness, and his awakening seemed to meet an important event in his life: 1994, he and two other game theory experts, John C. Harsanyi and Reinhard Zelten, won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Nash didn't give up his research because he won the Nobel Prize. In the autobiography of the Nobel Prize winner, he wrote: "Statistically, no 66-year-old mathematician or scientist can make further progress in his or her previous achievements through continuous research work. However, I still keep trying. My situation may be that I have been out of touch with the routine because I have had some unrealistic thoughts for 25 years, which is equivalent to providing some kind of vacation. Therefore, I hope to achieve some valuable results through the research results up to 1997 or any new ideas that appear later. "