John+Nash

He taught at M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in 1951, but had to stop because of his mental illness a few years after he started. (Matt McDonald [|http://www.answers.com/topic/john-forbes-nash)|__http://www.answers.com/topic/john-forbes-nash)__]

Nash decided to attend graduate school at Princeton University instead of Harvard University because Princetom was closer to his home. (Matt McDonald http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html)

Won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize (a.k.a. The Nobel Prize) in Economics Sciences in 1994. (Matt McDonald http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html)

He attended classes at Bluefield College while he was still in high school. He received his bachelors degree and masters degree in 1948 at Carnegie Mellon. (Matt McDonald [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash)|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash)__]

John **Forbes** Nash **Jr.** Was born to his parents John and Margaret in 1928. (Matt McDonald [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash)|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash)__]

John Nash first was affected by Schizophrenia in his twenties. Unfortunately, John and Alicia’s son also suffers from hallucinations (Sam Reese, [|http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1136260).]

His parent’s names were John Nash and Margaret Virginia Martin (Carlos Medina) http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html

John Nash recieved a full scholarship to Carnagie Mellon from the George Westinghouse Scholarship foundation. (Chris Christensen, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html)

John Nash was part of the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until he resigned in the spring of 1959.(Chris Christensen, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html)

Alicia had graduated as a physics major from M.I.T. where John and Alicia met and she had a job in the New York City area in 1956-1957.(Chris Christensen, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html)

When the 21-year old John Nash wrote his 27-page dissertation outlining his "Nash Equilibrium" for strategic non-cooperative games, the impact was enormous.(Chris Christensen, http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm)

When Nash had applied to graduate school at Princeton in 1948, his old Carnegie Tech professor, R.J. Duffin, wrote only one line on his letter of recommendation: "This man is a genius". (Chris Christensen, http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm)

John Nash published his first paper with his father when he was seventeen years old (Sam Reese, [|http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm).]

John Nash invented a board game which his friends called “Nash.” This board game eventually went on the market and was called “Hex.” He then went on to teach a subject called game theory, which explains strategies on how to win all types of competition, including competition in the business world (Sam Reese, [|http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/peopleevents/p_jnash.html).]

Nash was treated for his condition with insulin shock therapy, which puts the patient in a comatose-like state (Sam Reese, [|http://www.slate.com/id/2060110).]

John Nash was offered a seat at the University of Chicago but declined because he had delusions that he was going to be the emperor of Antarctica (Sam Reese, [|http://www.colorado.edu/Economics/morey/6808/genius&m.html).]

In 1978 for his invention of non-cooperative equilibria, John Nash was awarded the John Von Neumann Theory Prize which is now called Nash equilibria (Jess, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash)

John Nash continued to be in and out of mental hospitals until 1970 when he was given insulin shock therapy and antipsychotic medications. This usually was done without him choosing it and after 1970 he never took antipsychotic medication again because he didn’t want to again (Jess, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash)

John Nash’s mental disturbances began in the early months of 1959, which happened to be the same time his wife Alicia was pregnant (Jess, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html)

At the age of 20, John Nash began his Ph. D. at Princeton, 1948 (Jess, http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi983.htm)

At a young age John's father had given him scientific volumes to study. His parents wanted him to receive a good edcuation, and made sure he did (Jess, http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=128)

The Nash Equilibrium, that he discovered/founded is still relevant and helpful today, it shows current auctions of bandwidth to cell phone companies., (http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg18424781.800) – Christina Flouras

John Nash was born in the era of the Great Depression, unlike most people he wasn’t affected tremendously by it, his family actually lived down the street from a country club, and wasn’t as scared of the amount of money that had unlike other families. ([|www.galegroup.galenet.com]) Christina Flouras

Nash published his first thesis at the age of 21. (http://www.stat.psu.edu/news/conferences/JohnNash/milnor.pdf) Christina Flouras

In 1959, and for the next 30 years Nash secluded himself from everyone and blamed his schizophrenia for not solving his theory quick enough. (http://www.answers.com/topic/john-forbes-nash) Christina Flouras

The only time that John Nash voluntarily went into the institution was for outpatient visits. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_nash_09.html) Christina Flouras

When John Nash was 21 he wrote his 27 page dissertation outlining his “Nash Equilibrium” for strategic non-cooperative games. (Chrissy, http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm)

Nash shared the Nobel Prize with John C. Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten – for what he claims as his, “most trivial work”! (Chrissy, http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm)

In 1999 Nash won the AMS Steele Prize for seminal contribution to research. The paper, “The embedding problem for Riemannian manifolds”, was remarkable. (Chrissy, http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/AMSSteelePrize.html)

In July 1958, //Fortune// magazine named him one of the brightest mathematicians in the world. He had just turned 30. (Chrissy, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/peopleevents/p_jnash.html)

John Nash was born June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia. (Carlos Medina) http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html

Freudian psychologists of the '50s claimed that his wife's pregnancy had tipped him over the edge. The marriage ended; but she housed him, back in Princeton. (Chrissy, http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi983.htm)

Nash enjoyed torturing animals and it is said that he once had his sister sit of a primitive battery-run electric chair (Dylan, http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Nash.html)

John Nash attended college courses at Bluefield College while still in high school. (Dylan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash )

John Nash worked on a Navy research project in White Oak, Maryland (Dylan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash) John Nash taught at MIT (Massetcheusetts Institute of Technology) after earning his Ph.d from Princeton, he was so young his nick name was "Kid Professor" (Dylan, http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=128)

John Nash was an avid reader of Time, Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and Life magazine (Dylan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_nash)

He was born on June 13, 1928 in Bloomfield, West Virginia. (Zach Harmes. http://www.answers.com/topic/john-forbes-nash)

He earned is __doctorate__ from Princeton at the age of 22. (Zach Harmes. http://www.answers.com/topic/john-forbes-nash)

He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics with John C. Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten. (Zach Harmes. http://www.answers.com/topic/john-forbes-nash)

In his senior year of high school, John won a coveted Westinghouse scholarship, one of only ten awarded in the nation. (Zach Harmes. http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=128)

(About Nash) “One of his fellow students wrote:- //He was a country boy unsophisticated even by our standards. He behaved oddly, playing a single chord on a piano over and over, leaving a melting ice cream cone melting on top of his cast-off clothing, walking on his roommate's sleeping body to turn off the light.// Another wrote:- //He was extremely lonely.// And a third fellow student wrote:- //We tormented poor John. We were very unkind. We were obnoxious. We sensed he had a mental problem.// He showed homosexual tendencies, climbing into bed with the other boys who reacted by making fun of the fact that he was attracted to boys and humiliated him. They played cruel pranks on him and he reacted by asking his fellow students to challenge him with mathematics problems. He ended up doing the homework of many of the students.” (Zach Harmes. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Nash.html)

His most important work was done in the 1980s in game theory (Laura Newman, http://www.dickran.net/nobel/nash.html) He finally won a Noble prize for his work, 45 years after he came up with it, because at the time the committee didn't want to give the prize to a "madman" (Laura Newman, http://www.dickran.net/nobel/nash.html)

Around 1956, Nash married his wife, Alicia (Laura Newman, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html)

His schizophrenia emerged in the year 1959 when Alicia was pregnant. Due to this he had to resign from his position as a faculty member at M.I.T. (Laura Newman, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html)

Nash's illness lead him to believe several things, including aliens trying to contact him through the New York Times. (Laura Newman, http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/001617.html)

When the 21-year old John Nash wrote his 27-page dissertation outlining his "Nash Equilibrium" for strategic non-cooperative games, the impact was enormous.(Shane Benfer http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm)

As an undergraduate, he independently proved Brouwer's fixed point theorem. Later on, he went on to crack one of Riemann's most baffling mathematical challenges. (Shane Benfer http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm )

The schizophrenia disease began to evaporate in the early 1970s and Nash began to return to work in mathematics.Shane Benfer http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm )

In 1958, Nash got struck by paranoid schizophrenia. He lost his job at M.I.T. in 1959(Shane Benfer http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm )

John Forbes Nash Jr. published his first paper with his father at age seventeen (Shane Benfer http://www.ams.org/notices/199810/milnor.pdf ).

John Nash was born on June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia (Mrs. Hess, [|http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html).]

In 1958, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia (Mrs. Hess, [|http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm).]

At the present time, Dr. Nash works at Princeton University. His office is in Fine Hall and he is still interested in new mathematical research (Mrs. Hess, [|http://www.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/).]

In 1958 Nash was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. (Carlos Medina) http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm

John Nash went to Bluefield College while in high school, he then attended Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and later earned his doctorate at Princeton (Curtis, [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash).]

During his senior year in high school John won the Westinghouse scholarship, which is only given to ten people in the nation (Curtis, [|http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=128).]

When John Nash applied to Princeton in 1948, R.J. Duffin, who was one of John's professors at Carnegie Mellon University, wrote a single line on his recommendation letter: "This man is a genius." (Steve Paul, [|http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm).]

John Nash and Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Larde divorced in 1963, became reunited in 1970 and started living together, renewed their relationship in 1994 after John received the Nobel Prize in Economics, and they finally remarried June first, 2001 (Steve Paul, [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash).]

John Nash had a love affair with a woman named Eleanor Stier which resulted in the birth of John David on June 19 1953, John's first son. He did not marry Eleanor and had little to do with her or the child (Steve Paul, [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash).]

Unlike what we saw in A Beautiful Mind, John Nash's schizophrenia was not visual, but rather it was only auditory (Steve Paul, [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash).]

John Nash became known as "the Phantom of Fine Hall" (Fine Hall is Princeton's mathematics center) in campus legend. The legend was created because John would come into the hall in the middle of the night and write equations all over the blackboards. The story has also appeared in a work of fiction by Rebecca Goldstein about life at Princeton. It is entitled The Mind-Body Problem. (Steve Paul, [|http://www.alfredslinks.com/links/economy/nash-john.htm).]

[|Along with attending Princeton University, Nash first went to Carnegie Mellon. (Allison Roush [[http://almaz.com/nobel/economics/1994b.html|]http://almaz.com/nobel/economics/1994b.html )

In 1994, John Nash won the Nobel Price for Economics. (Allison Roush http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001531/John-F-Nash-Jr ) [|In 1994 when Nash won the Nobel Prize for Economics he shared it with two other men; John C. Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten. (Allison Roush [[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001531/John-F-Nash-Jr|] Nash lost his job at M.I.T. in 1959 because he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. (Allison Roush [|http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm]).

After Nash graduated, he took a summer job in White Oak, Maryland working on a Navy research project. (Leif Warner, [|�237��238�John met Alicia López-Harrison de Lardé at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.??if Warner, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash|]**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash** )

His father, John Nash Sr. was an electrical engineer and had come to Bluefield to work for the Appalachian Electric Power Company. (Leif Warner, **http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/AMSSteelePrize.html** )

__Nash was awarded The Leroy P Steele Prize of the AMS in 1999. (Leif Warner, [|__He was only 21 when he wrote the 27-page game theory, the mathematics of competition. (Leif Warner, [[[[http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi983.htm%7C]**[|http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi983.htm|http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi983.htm|]**http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi983.htm]]]]** )

John met Alicia López-Harrison de Lardé at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Leif Warner, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash)

His mother, Virginia Martin was a teacher.(Leif Warner, http://www.alfredslinks.com/links/economy/nash-john.htm)

He was born June 13,1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia. (Leif Warner, http://www.alfredslinks.com/links/economy/nash-john.htm)

John Nash won the 1994 Bank of Sweden Prize while battling his schizophrenia. (Brianna Blefko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash)

Nash studied engineering, chemistry and finally math at Carnegie Mellon and achieved his bachelor's and masters degrees. (Brianna Blefko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash)

John's father, originally from Texas, graduated from Texas Agricultural and Mechanical, and he earned a bachelors degree in engineering. (Brianna Blefko http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html)

Nash married a woman named Alicia, who also attended M.I.T., and while she was pregnant, Nash resigned from M.I.T. because his schizophrenia was getting out of control. (Brianna Blefko http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html)

While attending Princeton, he proved Brouwer's fixed point theorem and he also explained Riemann's conundrum. (Brianna Blefko http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm) ? John Nash had a sister named Margret who was two and a half years younger than he was. (Carlos Medina) http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html

Nash began school at Princeton in 1948. (Carlos Medina) http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Nash.html

Nash and Alicia divorced in 1963 and reunited in 1970. They then decided to renew their relationship after Nash won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. They finally remarried on June 1, 2001 (Kelly, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash).

Nash was given the Nickname Phantom of Fine Hall by his Princton students. Fine Hall housed the mathematics department at Princeton at that time (Kelly, http://www.funtrivia.com/en/People/John-Nash-14128.html)

Th real John Nash did not experience visual hallucinations, his schizophrenia caused him to have auditory hallucinations. He thought that he was receiving messages from space (Kelly, http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1136260)

John Nash initially planned to major in chemical engineering when he went to Carnegie Technical College in Pittsburgh (Kelly, http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1136260)