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John Nash: Beautiful Mind
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[T]hrough all the years of mental delusion and turmoil, John Nash hung on - to his wife, to his university, and to himself. Despite their divorce, Alicia took care of him. Theirs is a story of love, support and triumph. In this story behind the movie "A Beautiful Mind," meet the real John Nash. Visit his university. Meet his professors.
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Now, four decades after John Nash was lost to mathematics, mathematics itself may hold the key to treating schizophrenia, the mental illness that held his mind hostage. A new way of analyzing shapes, called morphometrics, may allow doctors to tell what changes occur in the brains of schizophrenics before they lose contact with reality. Morphometrics is ... providing clues to the development of fetal alcohol syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease and is improving the ability of brain surgeons to map out the routes they will take to perform delicate operations. In the study of the brain, the shape of things to come is, quite literally, shape.
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John Nash was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia, a former coal town nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains. As a young boy, Nash was solitary, bookish, and introverted. His father, John Sr., was a quiet engineer with an incisive mind. His mother, Virginia... intelligent, was a former teacher who had large dreams for her son, pushing him to read at 4, learn Latin, and skip a grade at school.
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Norbert Wiener was one of the first to recognize that Nash's extreme eccentricities and personality problems were actually symptoms of a medical disorder. Long sad years followed by periods of hospital treatment, temporary recovery, then further treatment. He was virtually incapacitated by the disease for the next two decades or so. Alicia eventually divorced Nash, although she continued to try to help him, and after a period of extreme mental torture he appeared to become lost to the world, removed from ordinary society, although he spent much of his time in the Mathematics Department at Princeton. He roamed about Europe and America; finally, returning to Princeton where he became a sad, ghostly character on the campus - "the Phantom of Fine Hall" as Rebecca Goldstein described him in her novel, Mind-Body Problem
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In his 27-page thesis in mathematics at Princeton University, which he wrote at age 21, Nash proved his famous theorem stipulating the existence of a solution (Nash equilibrium) to all non-co-operative games. This finding had a phenomenal impact on economic analysis and applications in many other fields (including in political science, biology, ecology, etc.). John Nash’s unusual life was the subject of the famous book A Beautiful Mind, by Sylvia Nassar. The book was made into a movie directed by Ron Howard, and won four Oscars in 2002. Today, at age 77, the celebrated mathematician continues his research into game theory, at Princeton.
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At the accession of William IV in 1830 Nash was dismissed from the project on the grounds of profligacy and Edward Blore commissioned to finish the palace. Nash's work, whilst comprising the celebrated state rooms, is now confined to the west wing of the palace and the Royal Mews. His grand entrance to the palace which was modelled on the Constantine Arch in Rome and built in carrara marble, was removed by Blore in 1851. Believed to be too narrow for the state coach to pass through, it was placed instead at the entrance to Hyde Park but since the 1960s has stood marooned on a traffic island, uncomfortably close to where the infamous Tyburn gallows once stood. A beautiful structure, known simply as Marble Arch, its present predicament stands as testament to Nash's frustration with his last royal appointment.
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