
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar - Summary
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The History of Nash
Nash's diagnosis of scitsophrania came after a stressful time in his career and life. His anxieties led him to decide to take on rymon's hypothesis of famously hard, unsolved math problem. It was when he was putting all his energy into this that he found out his wife was pregnant. This was when people noticed his increasingly strange behavior. Accusing his colleagues of looking through his trash to see his work on the hypothesis became common for nash. He began to believe aliens were trying to ruin his career, and they were sending secret messages through the paper. Turning down a professorship at the university of chicago s he was emperor of antarctica. Nash
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