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John Nash was born London in 1893. On the outbreak of the First World War, Nash joined the First Artist Rifles. On one occasion Nash was one of eighty men ordered to cross No-Mans-Land at Marcoing near Cambrai. Of these, only Nash and eleven men returned. Afterwards Nash painted Over the Top in memory of the failed attack. John's brother, Paul Nash, was one of the best known artists of the war.
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American mathematician and economist John Nash will be arriving in Mumbai on Monday to deliver a lecture on the economics of money and, in his words, "to explore the new, emerging India for himself." Nash, famously portrayed in the Oscar-winning movie A Beautiful Mind by Russell Crowe, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1994. Josy Joseph spoke to the 79-year-old mathematician ahead of his Mumbai sojourn.
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John Nash, immortalized by Russell Crowe as a tormented genius in A Beautiful Mind, suffered bipolar disorder - or manic depression - rather than schizophrenia, says an Australian psychiatrist. University of NSW Professor of Psychiatry Gordon Parker, who has reappraised the maths genius's biography, said: "A significant percentage of people who have bipolar disorder are, possibly like John Nash, misdiagnosed as having schizophrenia." Professor Parker said based on Sylvia Nasar's biography, the age at which Mr Nash developed his illness, his family history and his clinical features all pointed to bipolar disorder rather than schizophrenia." One of the biggest clues was that Mr Nash experienced two of his major three manic episodes in the Spring. "We've known since the time of Hippocrates that manic episodes are much more likely to come on in Springtime," Professor Parker said. "As soon as we start having those wonderfully clear blue skies the manic people come out of the woodwork and fill up the wards."
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John Nash took a circuitous route to become one of the most respected figures in the canon of English architecture. Nash was born in London in 1752, the son of a Lambeth millwright. He began his career under the guidance of Sir Robert Taylor (who became the surveyor of the King's Works in 1769), but a substantial inheritance enabled him to retire before he produced anything of significance.
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John Nash was born in London and educated at Wellington College. On the advice of his older brother, fellow artist Paul Nash, he avoided art school as a formal art training would destroy "the special thing" that John possessed. He was a founder member of the London Group and ... showed with the Camden Town Group. He was a very accomplished wood engraver and lithographer and served as an official war artist in both the World Wars. On one occasion in 1917, Nash was one of eighty men ordered to cross No-Mans-Land at Marcoing near Cambrai. Of these, only Nash and eleven men returned.
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John Nash was born in Kensington, London on 11 April 1893, and was educated at Wellington College. He was encouraged by his elder brother Paul to make watercolours and comic drawings without formal training, and so cultivated a highly personal style. His early achievements were exhibited in 1913, in a joint show with Paul at the Dorien Leigh Gallery, London. He then took up oil painting, and exhibited at the London Group, which he helped to found (1914), and the Camden Town Group (1915). From midway through the First World War, he served in France as a member of the Artists’ Rifles (1916-18) and acted as an Official War Artist (1918).
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