Sunday, May 24, 2015 9:14:50 PM
John Nash, mathematician portrayed in A Beautiful Mind, dies in taxi crash at 86
"Schizophrenia: A story of my father"
.. insert YouTube .. hopefully most saw 'A Beautiful Mind' years ago .. it is a supadupa uva movie ..
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* Nash and wife Alicia killed in taxi crash on New Jersey Turnpike
* Russell Crowe salutes ‘beautiful minds, beautiful hearts’
John Nash in a picture taken in 2002. Photograph: Fred Prouser/Reuters
Tom McCarthy in New York
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Sunday 24 May 2015 12.59 EDT
Last modified on Sunday 24 May 2015 18.28 EDT
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John Nash, the Nobel prize-winning mathematician whose life story .. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/mar/26/biography.highereducation .. inspired the film A Beautiful Mind .. http://www.theguardian.com/film/movie/90285/beautiful.mind , was killed with his wife Alicia in taxi cab crash in New Jersey on Saturday night, police said.
Nash, 86, was a senior mathematician at Princeton University in New Jersey. He and Alicia, 82, were traveling on the New Jersey Turnpike when their driver lost control .. http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/05/famed_a_beautiful_mind_mathematician_wife_killed_in_taxi_crash_police_say.html , NJ.com quoted state police sergeant Gregory Williams as saying. The cab hit a guardrail and the couple were thrown from the vehicle.
The cab driver and a passenger in a second vehicle were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, according to reports.
Russell Crowe, who starred as Nash in the 2001 movie, which won four Academy Awards including best picture, tweeted ..
“Stunned … my heart goes out to John & Alicia & family,” Crowe wrote. “An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.”
Nash was born on 13 June 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia, to a father who was an electrical engineer and a mother who was a schoolteacher. In an autobiographical essay .. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1994/nash-bio.html .. submitted to the Nobel committee, Nash described his early curiosity in mathematical problems.
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“By the time I was a student in high school I was reading the classic Men of Mathematics by ET Bell and I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime,” Nash wrote.
Harvard invited Nash to join its mathematics department as a doctoral student, but Princeton offered superior terms, and so Nash matriculated in 1948. In just two years he had completed the work on non-cooperative games .. http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/Non-Cooperative_Games_Nash.pdf .. that would be recognized with a Nobel prize in economics 40 years later.
“This paper introduces the concept of a non-cooperative game and develops methods for the mathematical analysis of such games,” the paper begins. “The main mathematical result is the proof of the existence in any game of at least one equilibrium point.”
The promise of Nash’s immense early achievement was shattered, however, in the ensuing 10 years, when he was overcome with a mental illness that was diagnosed in 1959 as paranoid schizophrenia.
“The mental disturbances originated in the early months of 1959 at a time when Alicia happened to be pregnant,” Nash wrote in the Nobel essay. “And as a consequence I resigned my position as a faculty member at MIT and, ultimately, after spending 50 days under ‘observation’ at the McLean Hospital, travelled to Europe and attempted to gain status there as a refugee.”
In news coverage .. https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/14/reviews/nasar-nash.html .. of the Nobel, the journalist Sylvia Nasar, who would go on to write A Beautiful Mind, the book upon which Ron Howard’s film was based, described Nash’s struggle.
“He didn’t die, but his life, once so full of brightness and promise, became hellish,” Nasar wrote.
In the essay, Nash describes thinking himself out of his illness.
“After my return to the dream-like delusional hypotheses in the later 60s I became a person of delusionally influenced thinking but of relatively moderate behavior and thus tended to avoid hospitalization and the direct attention of psychiatrists,” Nash wrote.
“Thus further time passed. Then gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.”
Alicia Nash, an MIT physics major when the pair met, divorced the mathematician in 1963 but continued to care for him during his illness, which prevented John Nash from working for decades. He resumed professional contacts in the 1980s; the couple remarried in 2001.
Among the high-profile tributes pouring in for Nash came one from the US National Security Agency, which was recipient of unsolicited letters from Nash in the 1950s about encryption techniques. The letters have been preserved in a museum exhibit .. http://m.nsa.gov/public_info/press_room/2012/nash_exhibit.shtml .. at the NSA.
“NSA is saddened by the loss of famed mathematician John Nash,” the agency said ..
Last week, Nash received a $500,000 Abel prize .. http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/may/19/abel-prize-2015-john-nash-louis-nirenberg-and-the-maths-of-ice-cream , one of the top lifetime achievement honours in mathematics, with the New York University mathematician Louis Nirenberg. The prize was given for the two men’s work on partial differential equations, which are used to describe change, movement and velocity.
Nirenberg said Nash was a truly great mathematician and “a kind of genius”.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/24/john-nash-mathematician-beautiful-mind-dies-taxi-crash
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Despite evidence of a link between genius and madness, no one has proved that such a link exists. However, scientists at the University of Toronto have discovered that creative people possess little to no "latent inhibition," the unconscious ability to reject unimportant or irrelevant stimuli. As University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson puts it, "This means that creative individuals remain in contact with the extra information constantly streaming in from the environment. The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it, even though that object is much more complex and interesting than he or she thinks. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities" [source: University of Toronto]. .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=102450856
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"Schizophrenia: A story of my father"
.. insert YouTube .. hopefully most saw 'A Beautiful Mind' years ago .. it is a supadupa uva movie ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojmWRWijVfQ
* Nash and wife Alicia killed in taxi crash on New Jersey Turnpike
* Russell Crowe salutes ‘beautiful minds, beautiful hearts’
John Nash in a picture taken in 2002. Photograph: Fred Prouser/Reuters
Tom McCarthy in New York
@TeeMcSee
Sunday 24 May 2015 12.59 EDT
Last modified on Sunday 24 May 2015 18.28 EDT
Comments 288
John Nash, the Nobel prize-winning mathematician whose life story .. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/mar/26/biography.highereducation .. inspired the film A Beautiful Mind .. http://www.theguardian.com/film/movie/90285/beautiful.mind , was killed with his wife Alicia in taxi cab crash in New Jersey on Saturday night, police said.
Nash, 86, was a senior mathematician at Princeton University in New Jersey. He and Alicia, 82, were traveling on the New Jersey Turnpike when their driver lost control .. http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/05/famed_a_beautiful_mind_mathematician_wife_killed_in_taxi_crash_police_say.html , NJ.com quoted state police sergeant Gregory Williams as saying. The cab hit a guardrail and the couple were thrown from the vehicle.
The cab driver and a passenger in a second vehicle were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, according to reports.
Russell Crowe, who starred as Nash in the 2001 movie, which won four Academy Awards including best picture, tweeted ..
.. his condolences on Sunday morning.Stunned...my heart goes out to John & Alicia & family.
— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) May 24, 2015
An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts. https://t.co/XF4V9MBwU4
“Stunned … my heart goes out to John & Alicia & family,” Crowe wrote. “An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.”
Nash was born on 13 June 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia, to a father who was an electrical engineer and a mother who was a schoolteacher. In an autobiographical essay .. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1994/nash-bio.html .. submitted to the Nobel committee, Nash described his early curiosity in mathematical problems.
--
John Nash's unique approach produced huge leaps in economics and maths
Read more
--
“By the time I was a student in high school I was reading the classic Men of Mathematics by ET Bell and I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime,” Nash wrote.
Harvard invited Nash to join its mathematics department as a doctoral student, but Princeton offered superior terms, and so Nash matriculated in 1948. In just two years he had completed the work on non-cooperative games .. http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/Non-Cooperative_Games_Nash.pdf .. that would be recognized with a Nobel prize in economics 40 years later.
“This paper introduces the concept of a non-cooperative game and develops methods for the mathematical analysis of such games,” the paper begins. “The main mathematical result is the proof of the existence in any game of at least one equilibrium point.”
The promise of Nash’s immense early achievement was shattered, however, in the ensuing 10 years, when he was overcome with a mental illness that was diagnosed in 1959 as paranoid schizophrenia.
“The mental disturbances originated in the early months of 1959 at a time when Alicia happened to be pregnant,” Nash wrote in the Nobel essay. “And as a consequence I resigned my position as a faculty member at MIT and, ultimately, after spending 50 days under ‘observation’ at the McLean Hospital, travelled to Europe and attempted to gain status there as a refugee.”
In news coverage .. https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/14/reviews/nasar-nash.html .. of the Nobel, the journalist Sylvia Nasar, who would go on to write A Beautiful Mind, the book upon which Ron Howard’s film was based, described Nash’s struggle.
“He didn’t die, but his life, once so full of brightness and promise, became hellish,” Nasar wrote.
In the essay, Nash describes thinking himself out of his illness.
“After my return to the dream-like delusional hypotheses in the later 60s I became a person of delusionally influenced thinking but of relatively moderate behavior and thus tended to avoid hospitalization and the direct attention of psychiatrists,” Nash wrote.
“Thus further time passed. Then gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.”
Alicia Nash, an MIT physics major when the pair met, divorced the mathematician in 1963 but continued to care for him during his illness, which prevented John Nash from working for decades. He resumed professional contacts in the 1980s; the couple remarried in 2001.
Among the high-profile tributes pouring in for Nash came one from the US National Security Agency, which was recipient of unsolicited letters from Nash in the 1950s about encryption techniques. The letters have been preserved in a museum exhibit .. http://m.nsa.gov/public_info/press_room/2012/nash_exhibit.shtml .. at the NSA.
“NSA is saddened by the loss of famed mathematician John Nash,” the agency said ..
.. on its official Twitter account.NSA is saddened by the loss of famed mathematician John Nash. #nashletters http://t.co/5WmhcLVdSq
— NSA/CSS (@NSAGov) May 24, 2015
Last week, Nash received a $500,000 Abel prize .. http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/may/19/abel-prize-2015-john-nash-louis-nirenberg-and-the-maths-of-ice-cream , one of the top lifetime achievement honours in mathematics, with the New York University mathematician Louis Nirenberg. The prize was given for the two men’s work on partial differential equations, which are used to describe change, movement and velocity.
Nirenberg said Nash was a truly great mathematician and “a kind of genius”.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/24/john-nash-mathematician-beautiful-mind-dies-taxi-crash
See also:
Despite evidence of a link between genius and madness, no one has proved that such a link exists. However, scientists at the University of Toronto have discovered that creative people possess little to no "latent inhibition," the unconscious ability to reject unimportant or irrelevant stimuli. As University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson puts it, "This means that creative individuals remain in contact with the extra information constantly streaming in from the environment. The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it, even though that object is much more complex and interesting than he or she thinks. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities" [source: University of Toronto]. .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=102450856
Learning to Cope With a Mind’s Taunting Voices
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65987173
Detouring from the 'madness' above, just because i picked it up along the way and because she should not be forgotten for her seeming brilliance back when ..
Brooksley Born warned that unchecked trading in the credit market could lead to disaster, but power brokers in Washington ignored her. Now we're all
paying the price .. ouch! lol, apology for the friggin' hailstorm in this one .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=37970175
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