JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
attempting eight hospitals later legal months
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.
acted both eventually felt mad respected success though work
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.
appear family insane people society useful
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.
delusional finally human hypotheses renounce revert
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.
died good saw
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.
good illness imagine maybe mental people selling
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.
certain periods
I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.
age tend
There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
In a dream it's typical not to be rational.
became either enter fellowship graduate harvard offered princeton since somewhat thus won
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
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We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.