John F. Nash, Jr
By: Greg
Early Life
• Born on June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West
Virginia.
• His sister was born about a year after him
on November 16, 1930.
• He originally was going to follow in his
fathers footsteps and become a electrical
engineer. So he went to college at
Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh.
College
• He was on a full scholarship called the the
George Westinghouse Scholarship.
• Midway through his major in chemical
engineering he started to think about other
majors.
• So he changed to chemistry, but then changed
again to mathematics.
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By the end of college he ended up getting
master in addition to his bachelor.
Princeton
• After graduating from Carnegie Tech he
then had a choice to go to either Havard or
Princeton.
• This were he came up with the non
cooperative games idea.
• He also came up with a discovery relating
to manifolds and real algebraic varieties.
• After getting his Ph.D he went to M.I.T. in
1951.
M.I.T
• He became a high paid instructor.
• While at M.I.T. he published a book Real
Algebraic Manifolds.
• He remained at instructor until the spring
of 1959.
Family Life
• He got Married during 1957 to Alicia who
had graduated as a Physics Major at M.I.T.
Schizophrenic Problems
• He started to become schizophrenic
during early 1959.
• He spent 50 days under observation at
McLean Hospital.
• He then traveled to Europe and attempted
to gain status there as a refugee.
• When he came back he was ordered to by
court to spent 5-8 months in a hopital.
Recovery
• During that time at the hospital he finally
renounced his delusions.
• He was able to get some more math
theories which were the Arc Structure of
Singularities and Analyticity of Solutions of
Implicit Function Problems with Analytic
Data.
More Schizophrenic Problems
• During the 60’s his dream like delusions
started to come back.
• Trying to avoid going back to the hospital
and seeing more psychiatrists, he tried
ignoring the delusions.
• He tried then nearly fully recovered from
his Schizophrenia.
• Later there was a book published about
John Nash called “A Beautiful Mind”
• Then there was a movie made based off
the book “A beautiful Mind”
• He then won a Noble Prize in
Mathematics.