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	Steve Nash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nash had decided to focus on basketball in his early teens, but still played soccer through high school, and was named British Columbia player of the year in soccer as well as basketball in his senior year.
		Nash was selected 15th overall by the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the 1996 NBA Draft.
		Nash explained his position by saying that the United States had provided insufficient evidence that Iraq was a threat and that the UN inspectors should be allowed to complete their mission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Nash (3967 words)

	John Forbes Nash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On June 13, 1928, John Forbes Nash was born in the small Appalachian town of Bluefield, West Virginia, the son of John Nash Sr., an Aggie electrical engineer, and Virginia Martin, a teacher.
		Alicia committed Nash to a mental hospital in 1959 for paranoid schizophrenia; their son John Charles Martin was born soon afterward but remained nameless for a year because she felt that John should have a say in the name.
		Nash's hallucinations were exclusively auditory, and not both visual and auditory as shown in the film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Forbes_Nash (1417 words)

	Nasar/Nash
		Although Nash was tottering on the brink of insanity by the winter of 1958, MIT's math department voted in January of 1959 to grant him tenure.
		Nash provides a paradigmatic example of the elementary truth, that research alone counts: this being the only factor for which his record was not abysmal.
		John Nash's realization that nationalism is an outmoded, ignorant and destructive delusion aroused degrees of paranoia in many respects comparable to his own, in the officialdom of France, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and East Germany.
	www.fermentmagazine.org /essays/jnash/fnash1.html (4428 words)

	St. Clair County Biographies
		MARTIN S., section 24, a substantial farmer and stock feeder of this county was born in Randolph County, Indiana, January 31, 1841, being the son of Martin and Susanna (Shoemaker) Boots, both natives of Virginia.
		Martin S. spent his youth on a farm in the county, and in the spring of 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate service under General Rice, and served six months in the mounted infantry, when he was discharged.
		Charles C. was the third child of a family of three sons and one daughter.
	www.looktothepast.com /stclairbios.html (18106 words)

	John Forbes Nash Jr. Biography
		John Nash was born in Bluefield, West Virginia as son of John Nash Sr.
		As was his parents, John became a mathematician, but, like his father, he was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic.
		But, according to Sylvia Nasar's biography of Nash, Alicia referred to him as her "boarder," and they lived "like two distantly related individuals under one roof" until he won the Nobel Prize in 1994, then they renewed their relationship.
	biographybase.com /biography/Nash_Jr_John_Forbes.html (839 words)

	The Lost Years of a Nobel Laureate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nash got the early morning telephone call from Stockholm -- 45 minutes late, as it turned out -- telling him that he was being honored along with two other pioneers of game theory, John C. Harsanyi of the University of California at Berkeley and Reinhard Selten of the University of Bonn.
		John Nash's West Virginia roots are often invoked by people who knew him at Princeton or at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught for a while in the 50's, to explain his lack of worldliness.
		Nash entered the doctoral program at Princeton with a fellowship, the town was arguably the center of the mathematical and scientific universe.
	www.phoenix.liu.edu /~uroy/eco54/histlist/JFNash/jfnash2.htm (3394 words)

	John Forbes Nash
		John Forbes Nash is a renowned mathematician, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1994 as a result of the dissertation he produced in 1950 at the age of 21 for his PhD degree from Princeton University.
		For all his genius and potential, however, Nash became afflicted with the mental illness paranoid schizophrenia in 1958, shortly after he married Alicia Larde and became a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (M.I.T.), and before the birth of his son John Charles Martin (who also became a mathematician and a schizophrenic).
		His illness derailed his career and left him highly susceptible to delusional thinking for many years, but thanks to his efforts, together with his wife and the Princeton community, he was able to gain enough control over the disease to return to his research and teaching in the 1980s.
	www.iscid.org /encyclopedia/John_Forbes_Nash (173 words)

	CBC Sports Online: Newsmaker: Steve Nash
		Nash is also the ninth player overall to win the award in two straight seasons.
		Nash guided the Suns to a franchise record-tying 62 victories last season, winning plaudits and acclaim for his unselfish play and fantastic vision on the court to win his first MVP award.
		Nash's repeat MVP victory immediately drew criticism from fans and journalists who questioned his defensive prowess, and whether he was the product of a top-notch coaching system.
	www.cbc.ca /sports/columns/newsmakers/steve_nash.html (1045 words)

	Biography for John Nash (V) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Son John Charles Martin remained nameless for a year because Alicia, having just committed Nash to a mental hospital, felt that he should have a say in what to name the baby.
		As was his parents, John grew up to be a mathematician, but, like his father, he was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic.
		The British architect John Nash, among whose greatest works were Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavillion at Brighton, suffered from high-functioning autism.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm1171285/bio (486 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on A Beautiful Mind at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nash developed it further to include multiple players in noncooperative situations where each player had to play his best game in response to his opponent’s best strategy.
		Alicia and John decided to take a vacation to Europe, she hoping that his being in a new environment would help him forget and begin anew.
		Notably, Nash was an advocate for peace and his equilibrium theory, which depends upon bargaining strategy, might be the strongest weapon of all.
	www.epinions.com /book-review-35E0-4BCC191-3A2734ED-prod1 (1906 words)

	John Forbes Nash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1958 John Nash began to show the signs of his mental illness.
		In 1978 he was awarded the John Von Neumann Theory Prize for his invention of non-cooperative equilibriums called Nash equilibria.
		A deleted scene from A Beautiful Mind reveals that Nash (re)invented the board game known as Hex or (at Princeton) "Nash" or "John" it was often played on hexagonal bathroom tiles.
	www.freeglossary.com /John_Forbes_Nash_Jr._(mathematician) (1069 words)

	At the Movies
		Nash's unlikely story of a math genius struck down at 30 by paranoid schizophrenia, who yet recovered to work again, first came to Grazer's attention by way of a Vanity Fair article by Sylvia Nasar, author of the Nash biography, "A Beautiful Mind," published in 1998.
		John and Alicia Nash were first married in Washington in 1957, but divorced in 1963 as a result of Nash's illness.
		Nash is also the father of John David Stier, born in 1953 to a woman with whom Nash had a relationship when he was on the MIT faculty.
	www.princetoninfo.com /200112/11219p06.html (822 words)

	Co. Cork Biographies
		John Doyle was born in the parish of Killeagh, County Cork, Ireland, Sept. 29, 1825.
		John Leonard Doyle, the son, who now owns the old homestead, was born there and enjoys a large share of the esteem of his neighbors and of the people who have known him from boyhood.
		JOHN E. The career of John E. Mulroney, of Fort Dodge, is strongly entrenched in the history of the jurisprudence of this section of Iowa where he has won prestige and esteem both as a private practitioner and public official.
	www.celticcousins.net /irishiniowa/corkbios.htm (16166 words)

	NY Times: John Nash
		Alicia Nash, with whom Nash shares a home near Princeton even though the couple were divorced years ago and who was let in on the secret along with Tucker, breathed a sigh of relief.
		In 1948, the year Nash entered the doctoral program at Princeton with a fellowship, the town was arguably the center of the mathematical and scientific universe.
		Alicia Nash believed very firmly, according to several people close to her, that Nash should live at home and stay within Princeton's mathematics community even when he was not functioning well.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~mwalker/NashStory.htm (3507 words)

	John Nash, an Amazing Life quiz -- free game
		John Nash was one of only 10 high school students nationwide to receive a Westinghouse Scholarship.
		In February 1957, John and Alicia were married in Washington, DC, and in May 1959 their son John Charles Martin Nash was born.
		John and Alicia were at last reconciled, and though he was still very sick she agreed to let him live with her in Princeton.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=81877 (430 words)

	A Real Number - A Beautiful Mind's John Nash is nowhere near as complicated as the real one. By Chris Suellentrop
		Nash was still ill at the time and thought John Stier would play "an essential and significant personal role in my personal long-awaited 'gay liberation,' " according to a letter Nash wrote to a friend.
		Nash moved in with Alicia again in 1970, and it's true that her patience and concern played a critical role in his recovery from schizophrenia.
		Third, Nash said that he had won for game theory and that he felt that game theory was like string theory, a subject of great intrinsic intellectual interest that the world wishes to imagine can be of some utility.
	www.slate.com /id/2060110 (1172 words)

	Maths Illustrated
		John Nash, played by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, was awarded a Nobel prize for his work on noncooperative games.
		At the Nash equilibrium they both testify (and each spend 2 years in jail), since if only one were to refuse to testify he would be punished with a longer jail sentence (3 years) based on the other's testimony.
		John says "If we all go for the blonde, we block each other and not a single one of us is gonna get her", so John may be considered one of the players.
	www.haverford.edu /math/lbutler/maths-illustrated.html (1279 words)

	JockBio: Steve Nash Biography
		Steve John Nash was born on February 7, 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
		Though John and Jean didn’t push either of their sons into any specific sport, they loved the idea of one or both of them following in their father’s footsteps.
		Charles Barkley was dealt before the 1996-97 season for Mark Bryant, Chuck Brown, Robert Horry and Sam Cassell.
	www.jockbio.com /Bios/Nash/Nash_bio.html (5158 words)

	Amazon.com: The Essential John Nash: Books: John Nash,Harold William Kuhn,Sylvia Nasar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nash and other mathematicians of his time were more 'wordy' in their presentations, and this makes the reading of their works much more palatable.
		Nash explains what he is going to do before he does it, and this serves to motivate the constructions that he employs.
		John Nash was the subject of the recent hit movie, "A Beautiful Mind." However, that is almost totally due to the human interest aspects of his battle with paranoid schizophrenia rather than his mathematics.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691095272?v=glance (2967 words)

	HALL HAVEN
		Charles later leaves Oklahoma and Rosa and takes at least two of the children with him to California, and is later joined by two others.
		John R. and Mary Ann HALL are buried in Chickamauga Cemetery in Walker County, Georgia.
		John R. HALL died in 1906 and was survived by three children: William Franklin HALL, Joseph HALL, and Albert HALL.
	www.fortunecity.com /millenium/meadowbank/4 (1962 words)

	A Beautiful Mind: In Print Page 3/ Maximum Russell Crowe
		Starting Out The First Signs Of Genius John Nash's West Virginia roots are often invoked by people who knew him at Princeton or at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught for a while in the 50's, to explain his lack of worldliness.
		Mainstream news organizations have stated everything from the "fact" that Nash was gay and an adulterer to the "fact" that he was a bad father and a bigot--all of which are untrue.
		As I explained to the students at Columbia, Nash is no more perfect than you or I. The point of "A Beautiful Mind" was not, as Entertainment Weekly concluded, "that what was beautiful about John Nash was the mind rather than the man," but rather the opposite.
	www.maximumcrowe.net /maxcrowe_bminprint3.html (4020 words)

	John Beverly of Orange County, North Carolina — Beverly Family Genealogy
		Many, including myself, have tried to prove the theory that John was the son of John BEVERLEY of Bertie Co., NC, whose will, dated Dec.
		It is known, for example, that when John died, at least three of his five known children were bound out to men known to be Quakers.
		Charles ADDINGTON (Note: Sally and Charles are ancestors of legendary Country Music artist "Mother" Maybelle CARTER of the singing Carter Family.
	www.geocities.com /roberttbeverly/jb_oc.htm (440 words)

	NBA.com: Steve Nash Bio
		Played in 40 games and averaged 7.9 ppg on.363 shooting with 5.5 assists in 31.7 minutes....Led the Mavericks with 219 assists and ranked second in free throw percentage (.826)....Missed the final 10 games of the season due to a lower back strain....Scored in double figures 12 times and dished-out 10-plus assists five times.
		Ranked 13th in the NBA in 3-point accuracy (.415), connecting on 81-195 with the Suns....Connected on 74-86 (.860) free throws, tops among the Suns....One of the most improved players in the NBA, Nash bettered his rookie numbers by 5.8 points, 1.1 rebounds, and 1.3 assists.
		Is the sponsor of the Steve Nash Youth Basketball League in British Columbia that has grown to over 10,000 participants
	www.nba.com /playerfile/steve_nash/bio.html (694 words)

	Charles John Quarto Artist Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Charles John is a legendary poet, songwriter and spiritual teacher.
		Charles' songs have been recorded by Michael Martin Murphy, Jerry Jeff Walker, Waylon Jennings, Hal Ketchum, Pete Wasner, John Townsend, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen and legions of others.
		Lyrics to some of the songs that Charles John Quarto and Steve Gillette have written together are found on this website.
	www.compassrosemusic.com /quarto.html (176 words)

	John Forbes Nash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The mother of Nash's oldest son, John David, was Eleanor Stier.
		He remained there (in and out of mental hospitals) until 1970, unable to work or produce meaningful scientific results.
		In 1978 he was awarded the John Von Neumann Theory Prize for his invention of non-cooperative equilibriums, now called Nash equilibriums.
	www.termsdefined.net /jo/john-forbes-nash.html (870 words)

	Big Ideas. Big Thinkers. Edward Witten \| Thirteen/WNET
		Green, Michael B., John H. Schwarz, and Edward Witten.
		Edward Witten, the Charles Simonyi Professor of Mathematical Physics in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists.
		Professor Witten is one of the principal authors of string theory, the framework with which physicists have sought to unify quantum mechanics with gravity.
	www.thirteen.org /bigideas/witten.html (467 words)

	66th Regiment North Carolina Infantry
		The North Carolina 66th Infantry Regiment was organized at Kinston, North Carolina, in October, 1862, by consolidating the 8th North Carolina Battalion Partisan Rangers and the 13th North Carolina Infantry Battalion.
		Its men were from the counties of Orange, Nash, Franklin, Wayne, Lenoir, Carteret, Jones, Duplin, and New Hanover.
		Rigdon, John C. Historical Sketch and Roster of the 66th Regiment North Carolina Infantry
	www.researchonline.net /nccw/unit150.htm (184 words)

	John Nash Quizzes and Trivia -- World's Largest Trivia Site!
		John Nash is one of the greatest mathemeticians of the 20th century, and is the subject of the film "A Beautiful Mind." Here are some more facts about this gifted man.
		* John Nash was one of only 10 high school students nationwide to receive a Westinghouse Scholarship.
		* In February 1957, John and Alicia were married in Washington, DC, and in May 1959 their son John Charles Martin Nash was born.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizzes/people/scientists__inventors/john_nash.html (358 words)

	Georgia 1st Infantry Regiment (Mercer-Olmstead's)
		Sifakis - The Compendium of the Confederate Armies
		Olmstead, Charles H., Reminiscences of Service with the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia
		Rigdon, John C., Historical Sketch and Roster of the GA 1st Infantry Regiment (Mercer - Olmstead's)
	www.researchonline.net /gacw/unit5.htm (86 words)

	Buffalo History Index
		John J. Albright History, illustrations man who financed the gallery named after him
		Charles I. Hendler, Women Scorned, Children's Hospital Born and the Demise of Harrington House
		A paper read by invitation before the Buffalo historical society, January 25, 1864, by John Wilkeson, esq.
	ah.bfn.org /h/histindex.html (1443 words)

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