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	John Forbes Nash
		On June 13, 1928, John Forbes Nash was born in the small Appalachian city 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.
		John Martin became a mathematician and, like his father, was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
	www.alfredslinks.com /links/economy/nash-john.htm (1071 words)

	John Forbes Nash
		John Nash was born in Bluefield, West Virginia as son of John Nash Sr.
		In 1958 John Nash began to show the first signs of his mental illness.
		In 1978 he was awarded the John Von Neumann Theory Prize for his invention of non-cooperative equilibriums, now called Nash equilibriums.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr._(mathematician).html (672 words)

	John Forbes Nash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On June 13, 1928, John Forbes Nash was born in the small Appalachian city of Bluefield, West Virginia, the son of John Nash Sr., an electrical engineer, and Virginia Martin, a teacher.
		Alicia admitted Nash to a mental hospital in 1959 for 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 (1787 words)

	Nash biography
		John Nash Senior was born in 1892 and had an unhappy childhood from which he escaped when he studied electrical engineering at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical.
		Nash won a scholarship in the George Westinghouse Competition and was accepted by the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) which he entered in June 1945 with the intention of taking a degree in chemical engineering.
		In February of 1957 Nash married Alicia; by the autumn of 1958 she was pregnant but, a couple of months later near the end of 1958, Nash's mental state became very disturbed.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Nash.html (3683 words)

	John Nash: Genius, Nobel and Schizophrenia
		The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s.
		Nash was a mathematical genius whose 27-page dissertation, "Non-Cooperative Games," written in 1950 when he was 21, would be honored with the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.
		However, Nash himself associated his madness with his living on an "ultralogical" plane, "breathing air too rare" for most mortals, and if being "cured" meant he could no longer do any original work at that level, then, Nash argued, a remission might not be worthwhile in the end.
	www.dickran.net /nobel/nash.html (898 words)

	John Forbes Nash, Jr. Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Nash was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia, and raised by his parents, John Nash, Sr., an electrical engineer for the Appalachian Power Company, and Margaret Nash, a teacher who retired after her marriage and placed a high value on the education of her two children.
		Nash was fired in 1954 after being arrested for indecent exposure in a public restroom during a Santa Monica police sting against homosexuals.
		Nash applied the results of this research to his next mathematical theory, which asserted that it is possible to embed a Riemannian manifold in a Euclidean space.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-forbes-nash-jr (1356 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)

	BBC - h2g2 - John Forbes Nash - Mathematician
		John Forbes Nash, born 13 June, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia, is one of the most celebrated living mathematicians.
		The work produced by Nash has had the most real-life applications of all his work, with great impacts on fields where understanding of strategies of competition and co-operation are involved, such as economics, evolutionary biology and political science.
		John C Harsanyi, John F Nash Jr and Reinhard Selten received the prize jointly 'for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/actionnetwork/A1136260 (1501 words)

	Biography of John Forbes Nash Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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.
		A deleted scene from A Beautiful Mind reveals that Nash (re)invented the board game known as Hex or (at Princeton) "Nash" or "John", as it was often played on hexagonal bathroom floor tiles.
	biography-2.qardinalinfo.com /n/Nash_Jr_John_Forbes.html (828 words)

	The Free Information Society - John Forbes Nash Jr. Biography
		John was brought up in a loving household that nurtured his genius.
		After the birth, John refused to acknowledge that it was his son, but continued having sexual relations with her, even after he had become romantically involved with a student named Alicia Larde.
		John was terrified of being locked up, thinking that he didn't belong there.
	www.freeinfosociety.com /site.php?postnum=128 (1625 words)

	John Forbes Nash at AllExperts
		On June 13, 1928, John Forbes Nash was born in the small Appalachian city 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.
		It is loosely based on Sylvia Nasar's biography, and has been criticized for its inaccurate portrayal of Nash's life and schizophrenia as well as for the over-simplified representation of the famous Nash equilibrium.
	en.allexperts.com /e/j/jo/john_forbes_nash.htm (1469 words)

	PNAS Classics -- Game Theory
		Nash believed that the right approach was to focus on individual decision-making, because choosing to join a coalition can simply be considered as one of the potential strategies at a player's disposal.
		For such a game, Nash defined an equilibrium to be a set of strategies, one for each player, such that no player would benefit from unilaterally changing his strategy while the other players stick to their equilibrium strategies.
		Nash's fellow student and current Academy Member David Gale, however, was impressed by Nash's work and urged him to "plant a flag" by publishing his proof as quickly as possible in PNAS.
	www.pnas.org /misc/classics5.shtml (2554 words)

	Learning from a Troubled Genius
		That was my introduction to math genius John Nash -- years before he was awarded his Nobel prize in economics, years before his recovery from schizophrenia, years before the release of the film version of his biography, "A Beautiful Mind," which is scheduled to arrive in theaters in January.
		In 1950 Nash earned his doctorate there in a branch of mathematics known as game theory, a system for assessing competing strategies and outcomes in such areas as economics, political science and sociology.
		When Nash's candidacy was first considered in the late 1980s, the selection committee immediately expressed concern about incurring embarrassment if they awarded the prize to someone with schizophrenia, even though Nash's work in game theory was finished in 1951, several years before the onset of his illness.
	www.namiscc.org /newsletters/December01/JohnNash.htm (2027 words)

	Nash, John Forbes
		John F Nash's father, also called John Forbes Nash so we shall refer to him as John Nash Senior, was a native of Texas.
		John Nash Senior was born in 1892 and had an unhappy childhood from which he escaped when he studied electrical engineering at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical.
		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.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/N/Nash/Nash.htm (2322 words)

	Nash, John Forbes Jr. (1928-)
		Nash, who worked in game theory and differential geometry, shared the 1994 Nobel prize for economics with two other game theorists, Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.
		After a promising start to his mathematical career, Nash began to suffer from schizophrenia around the age of 30 and battled with the illness for the next quarter of a century.
		His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled "Non-cooperative Games," contained the definition and properties of what would later be called Nash equilibrium and the basis of the work that, 44 years later, would make him a Nobelist.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/N/Nash.html (229 words)

	Amazon.de: A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This was in fact John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiralled into schizophrenia in the 1950s.
		I wept because Nash was questioning whether it was okay for him to eat in the faculty cafeteria at Princeton....a place where he had eaten many times as an established mathematician, a place where he learned, taught others, and oftentimes held court.
		What truly cheapens Nasar's biography is that she directly pleads Nash's case for him at the end, claiming he is of a stronger character now than he was in his arrogant youth, although she recounts an appalling episode after Nash's recovery in which Nash expresses vicious opinions on his elder son.
	www.amazon.de /Beautiful-Mind-Biography-Forbes-Economics/dp/0684853701 (2522 words)

	NY Times: John Nash
		Nash has never talked about his illness publicly except to refer obliquely, at the news conference announcing his Nobel, to the fact that he had made some irrational choices in the past.
		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 50s, to explain his lack of worldliness.
		Nash, who never remarried, supported her former husband and her son by working as a computer programmer, with some financial help from family, friends and colleagues.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~mwalker/NashStory.htm (3507 words)

	John F. Nash, Jr. - Autobiography
		And de Giorgi was first actually to achieve the ascent of the summit (of the figuratively described problem) at least for the particularly interesting case of "elliptic equations".
		It seems conceivable that if either de Giorgi or Nash had failed in the attack on this problem (of a priori estimates of Holder continuity) then that the lone climber reaching the peak would have been recognized with mathematics' Fields medal (which has traditionally been restricted to persons less than 40 years old).
		Hironaka called "the Nash blowing-up transformation"; and those of "Arc Structure of Singularities" and "Analyticity of Solutions of Implicit Function Problems with Analytic Data".
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html (2205 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)

	Sample Chapter for Nash, J.; Kuhn, H.W. and Nasar, S., eds.: The Essential John Nash.
		John Milnor, the topologist, who was a freshman that year, said, “It was as if he wanted to rediscover, for himself, three hundred years of mathematics.” Always on the lookout for a shortcut to fame, Nash would corner visiting lecturers, clipboard and writing pad in hand.
		Nash’s theory of games—especially his notion of equilibrium for such games (now known as Nash equilibrium)—significantly extended the boundaries of economics as a discipline.
		John Conway, the Princeton mathematician who discovered surreal numbers, calls Nash’s result “one of the most important pieces of mathematical analysis in this century.” Nash’s theorem stated that any kind of surface that embodied a special notion of smoothness could actually be embedded in a Euclidean space.
	pup.princeton.edu /chapters/i7238.html (4380 words)

	John Forbes Nash \| Science and Its Times: 1950-Present
		Mathematician John Forbes Nash was born in Bluefield, West Virginia.
		Nash's thesis work established the theory of equilibria in non-cooperative games, earning him a share of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics nearly half a century later.
		During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Nash eventually faced destitution and homelessness until his ex-wife and friends within the mathematical community brought him back to Princeton, where Nash worked in obscurity while he maintained tenuous and informal links to the scholarly community between hospitalizations for his illness.
	www.bookrags.com /research/john-forbes-nash-scit-07123 (671 words)

	Big Ideas. Big Thinkers. John Nash \| Thirteen/WNET
		John Nash's ideas on game theory have caused its influence to grow so quickly that some claim, it is on a path "to overwhelm much of economics itself."
		John Nash was born in Bluefield, West Virginia in 1928.
		At the age of sixteen, Nash was awarded the George Westinghouse Scholarship, which provided a full scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
	www.thirteen.org /bigideas/nash.html (303 words)

	John Forbes Nash and Game Theory
		John Forbes Nash was born June 13, 1928 in the small city of Bluefield, West Virginia to John Nash Sr., an electrical engineer, and Margaret Virginia Martin, who had been a schoolteacher before she was married.
		Nash met a woman named Eleanor Stier, and in 1953, she gave birth to his son, John David Stier.
		John Nash claimed that all cooperative games could be reduced to some form of non-cooperative game.
	members.tripod.com /math2005uts/nash.html (2126 words)

	Economics Nobelist Nash did early work at MIT - MIT News Office
		John F. Nash, one of the three co-recipients of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, did seminal work in the field of game theory as a young faculty member in the MIT mathematics department.
		Nash left the Institute in 1959 and has spent most of the years since at Princeton.
		However, Dr. Nash is widely credited with transforming it into a useful tool for economists and others, beginning with publication of his PhD thesis, "Non-Cooperative Games," in the journal Annals of Mathematics.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1994/nash-1019.html (522 words)

	John Nash, A Beautiful Mind, The Story of John Nash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was 1959 when John Forbes Nash, Jr.
		Forced to resign his position at M.I.T., John Nash appeared to be a shell of his former self.
		Yet, through all the years of mental delusion and turmoil, John Nash hung on - to his wife, to his university, and to himself.
	www.awesomestories.com /movies/beautiful_mind/beautiful_mind.htm (155 words)

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