Nash-ville

[khall]

So often, history seems...distant. Like...there's no 'heros' or great people or...excitement. I mean, we can't go be pirates (except on South Park), there's no knights, there's no dragons to slay, it's rare to come across someone taking hostages with a knife when you have a gun in your pocket, it makes...history seem like...stories. Like adventure

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[anais_pf]

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Much of his demeanor likely stemmed from mental illness, which began emerging in 1959 when Alicia was pregnant with a son. The film, though, did not mention Nash older son or to the years that he and Alicia spent living together after divorcing. The couple split in 1963, then resumed living together several years later and finally remarried in 2001.

Born in Bluefield, W. Va., to an electrical engineer and a housewife, Nash had read the classic "Men of Mathematics" by E.T. Bell by the time he was in high school. He planned to follow in his father's footsteps and studied for three years at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mellon University), but instead developed a passion for mathematics.

He then went to Princeton, where he worked on his equilibrium theory and, in 1950, received his doctorate with a dissertation on non-cooperative games. The thesis contained the definition and properties of what would later be called the Nash equilibrium.

Nash then taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for several years and held a research post at Brandeis University before eventually returning to Princeton.

[khall]

Thank you. Very much. It helps a lot to know. *hugs* Gotta say news of his death...shook me, a bit. Not as bad as Leonard Nimoy but...more than usual for someone who to me is a cardboard cut-out, a media figure.

K.

[khall]

He also hated the depiction of him in that movie. Because it showed him eventually going back to taking his meds. Which he never did.

K.