John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928)

The life cycle 6 3

Important years of life

1947 3
1950 6
1956 3
1959 6
1965 3
1968 6
1974 3
1977 6
1983 3
1986 6
1992 3
1995 6
2001 3
2004 6
2010 3
2013 6

May 23, 2015 = 2043 = 9

wiki information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr.

Game theory

Nash earned a Ph.D. degree in 1950 with a 28-page dissertation on non-cooperative games.The thesis, written under the supervision of doctoral advisor Albert W. Tucker, contained the definition an properties of the Nash equilibrium. A crucial concept in non cooperative games, it won Nash the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994

…In the Nash biography A Beautiful Mind, author Sylvia Nasar explains that Nash was working on proving Hilbert’s nineteenth problem, a theorem involving elliptic partial differential equations when, in 1956, he suffered a severe disappointment. He learned that an Italian mathematician, Ennio de Giorgi, had published a proof just months before Nash achieved his proof. Each took different routes to get to their solutions. The two mathematicians met each other at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University during the summer of 1956. It has been speculated that if only one had solved the problem, he would have been given the Fields Medal for the proof…

In 1959, Nash began showing clear signs of mental illness, and spent several years at psychiatric hospitals being treated for paranoid schizophrenia….At this time, his wife was pregnant with their first child. He resigned his position as a member of the MIT mathematics faculty in the spring of 1959

At Princeton, Nash became known as “The Phantom of Fine Hall”(Princeton’s mathematics center), a shadowy figure who would scribble arcane equations on blackboards in the middle of the night. He is referred to in a novel set at Princeton, The Mind-Body Problem, 1983, by Rebecca Goldstein

…He further stated he was always taken to hospitals against his will. He only temporarily renounced his “dream-like delusional hypotheses” after being in a hospital long enough to decide he would superficially conform — to behave normally or to experienc “enforced rationality”. Only gradually on his own did he “intellectually reject” some of the “delusionally influenced” and “politically oriented” thinking as a waste of effort. By 1995, however, even though he was “thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists,” he said he felt more limited Sylvia Nasar’s biography of Nash, A Beautiful Mind, was published in 1998. A film by the same name was released in 2001, directed by Ron Howard with Russell Crowe playing Nash; it won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture

…He stopped taking psychiatric medication and was allowed by Princeton to audit classes. He continued to work on mathematics and eventually he was allowed to teach again. In the 1990s, Lardé and Nash resumed their relationship, remarrying in 2001.

2010 – Double Helix Medal

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