John Forbes Nash, Jr.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
John Forbes Nash Jr.was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations. Nash's work has provided insight into the factors that govern chance and decision making inside complex systems found in daily life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth13 June 1928
CountryUnited States of America
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I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
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I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.
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It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.
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I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
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As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative Games,' also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties.
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I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.
You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
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I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
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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.
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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.