冯•诺依曼最感兴趣的是想看看自己能否给这种互动游戏找出最理想的策略，因为乍一看来，它们在理论上几乎是无解的。
Von Neumann was particularly interested in seeing if he could develop optimal strategies for these kinds of mutual games, because at first glance they seemed almost insolvable in theory.
1928年，即纳什出生的那一年，冯·诺依曼概述了最早的正式博弈论，表明，在两人的零和博弈中，向来存在一种均衡。
In 1928, the year Nash was born, von Neumann outlined a first formal theory of games, showing that in two-person, zero-sum games, there would always be an equilibrium.
另一位先驱是匈牙利数学家约翰·冯·诺依曼。
Another pioneer was John von Neumann, a Hungarian mathematician.
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