在1950年，约翰纳什以一篇仅28页的论文获得了普林斯顿大学博士学位。这篇论文由四篇小论文组成。分别是：

- EquilibriumPoints in N-person Games , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 36(1950), 48–49. MR0031701

- The BargainingProblem , Econometrica 18 (1950), 155–162. MR0035977

- Two-personCooperative Games , Econometrica 21 (1953), 128–140. MR0053471

- Non-cooperativeGames , Annals of Mathematics 54 (1951), 286–295.

四篇论文分别发表在3个杂志上，Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences、Econometrica 、Annals of Mathematics 。