American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
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A mind that reshaped how we understand competition, cooperation, and strategic choice — then spent decades fighting itself. Nash gave economics and mathematics tools they still can't do without, won a Nobel Prize after emerging from schizophrenia, and became the rare mathematician whose inner battle played in multiplexes.
John Forbes Nash Jr. introduced the Nash equilibrium and other core game theory concepts as a graduate student at Princeton, work that would eventually earn him the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics alongside John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten. In the 1950s he proved the Nash embedding theorems by solving nonlinear partial differential equations in Riemannian geometry, and with Ennio De Giorgi resolved Hilbert's nineteenth problem — a question open for nearly sixty years — through their theorem on the smoothness of solutions to elliptic and parabolic equations. In 1959 Nash began showing signs of s…
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You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. A movie, by the way, was made — sort of a small-scale offbeat movie — called Pi recently.
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape.
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
By the time I was a student in high school I was reading the classic Men of Mathematics by E. T.
Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.
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