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A Beautiful Mind

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by Sylvia Nasar


  algebraic manifolds, 123–24, 128–32

  algebraic topology, 59, 68

  algebraic varieties, 131, 309

  Allen, Beth, 354, 355

  Amadur, Izzy, 153

  Amadur, Ted, 153

  Ambrose, Warren, 143, 155–56, 159, 162, 163, 203, 282

  American Journal of Mathematics, 226–27

  American Mathematical Society (AMS), 38, 226, 245–46, 303

  Amherst College, 344, 387

  analysis:

  complex, 130

  at Princeton, 64

  “Analyticity of Solutions of Implicit Function Problems with Analytic Data” (Nash), 317–18

  Ankeny, Barbara, 202

  Ankeny, Nesmith, 202

  Annals of Mathematics, 58, 72, 131, 161, 318

  antipsychotics, 329, 353

  anti-Semitism, 58, 135, 136, 137, 146, 216

  Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Evaluation Group (ASWOEG), 116

  Appalachian Power Company, 27, 33

  Arafat, Yasir, 357

  Archimedes, 94

  Aristophanes, 94

  Aristotle, 94, 275

  Army, U.S., 134

  Arnold, Henry “Hap,” 106

  Arrow, Kenneth:

  Nobel awarded to, 107, 358, 360

  at RAND, 107–8, 109, 113, 115, 117, 118

  artificial intelligence, 102

  Artin, Emil, 19, 64, 73, 159, 210, 229, 239, 281

  Nash opposed by, 73–74, 132

  Artin, Karin (Tate), 73, 239, 242

  Artin, Michael, 129, 131, 281

  Artin, Natasha, 210

  Art of the Fugue, The (Bach), 113

  Asimov, Isaac, 105

  Assadi, Amir, 337–38, 343

  ASWOEG (Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Evaluation Group), 116

  Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 74, 80, 107, 110, 122, 134, 216

  auctions, 374–78

  Augenstein, Bruno, 107

  Aumann, Robert, 140, 156, 354

  in Nobel deliberations, 362, 363

  Australia, 377

  Bach, Johann Sebastian, 113

  Bailey, Anna, 343

  Balzac, Honoré de, 325

  Bamberger family, 54

  Bank of Sweden, 358, 368

  Baptist Standard, 26

  bargaining, 88–91, 129, 149–51

  “Bargaining Problem, The” (Nash), 88, 120, 360

  BASIC, 71

  Baumecker, Peter, 289–90, 292, 294

  Baumol, William, 102

  Baylor College, 26

  Beckenback, Alice, 299

  Bell, E. T., 34, 35, 229, 230–31, 232

  Bell Jar, The (Plath), 211

  Bellman, Richard, 110, 185

  Berge, Claude, 243

  Bers, Lipman, 246

  Best, Richard, 184, 185–86, 189

  Bewley, Truman, 354, 355

  Binmore, Kenneth, 355

  bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness), 18, 258, 318–19

  Birkhoff, G. D., 53, 55, 103, 136

  Blackwell, David, 117

  Blake, William, 13

  Bletchley Park, 56, 107

  Bleuler, Eugen, 17

  Bleuler, Manfred, 352

  Bluefield, West Va., description of, 28

  Bluefield College, 35, 39

  Bluefield Daily Telegraph, 33, 38

  Bluefield Supply, 33

  Bôcher Prize, 138, 226–27, 237, 243

  Bochner, Salomon, 64, 71, 128, 132

  Boeing, 342–43

  Bohnenblust, H. Frederic, 103, 117

  Bohr, Harald, 49, 50

  Bohr, Niels, 50, 56, 70

  Bombieri, Enrico, 20–21, 229, 230, 388

  Borel, Armand, 264, 272, 301, 313

  as Annals of Mathematics editor, 318

  Carrier Clinic visits of, 307

  IAS appointments arranged by, 296, 308

  Nashes’ socializing with, 299, 380, 386

  Nash recommended by, 321

  on Nash’s embedding theorem, 161–62

  Nash’s nonsensical calls to, 286

  Borel, Emile, 81

  Borel, Gaby, 264, 299, 344, 380, 386

  Borsuk, Karol, 72

  Borsuk conjecture, 72

  Bott, Raoul, 40, 41, 203, 240

  Boy Scouts, 33

  Bradley, Bernard E., 261

  Brandeis University, 314–22

  Brauer, Fred, 146

  Brenner, Joseph, 239, 258

  Brezhnev, Leonid, 332

  Bricker, Jacob Leon, 144, 223, 321

  Alicia Larde and, 200–201

  Eleanor Stier and, 177, 178, 181, 182, 206–7

  Nash’s delusions about, 326

  Nash’s relationship with, 180–83, 204, 206–7

  bridge, 142

  Brieskorn, Egbert, 318

  Brod, Max, 278

  Brode, Wallace, 279

  Bronx High School, 142

  Brouwer’s fixed point theorem, 45, 128, 362

  Browder, Earl, 153

  Browder, Eva, 233–34, 380

  Browder, Felix, 73, 142, 154, 157, 229, 244, 246–47

  Nashes’ British trip and, 233–34

  Nashes’ socializing with, 380, 386

  on Nash’s defection effort, 281

  Nash’s McLean commitment and, 257

  Browder, William, 309, 335

  Brown, Douglas, 126, 310, 312

  Brownian motion, 55

  Buchanan, James, 364

  Buchwald, Art, 271

  Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France, 298

  Bunker Hill Community College, 344

  Burr, Stefan, 299

  Bush, Vannevar, 137

  Calabi, Eugenio, 64, 68, 72, 232, 244–45

  Calabi, Giuliana, 245

  calculus, tensor, 380

  California Institute of Technology, 375

  Camus, Albert, 271

  Cantorian set theory, 52

  Cappell, Sylvain, 99

  Carl XVI Gustav, king of Sweden, 379–80

  Carleson, Lennart, 223–24, 226, 227

  Carnegie Institute of Technology, 35, 39–45, 129, 362

  description of, 40

  Carrier Clinic, 304, 305–8, 312–13, 43, 344

  Cartan, Elie-Joseph, 157

  Cartwright, Mary, 57

  Casals, Pablo, 193

  Castle, The (Kafka), 273, 278

  Cauchy problem, 297–98

  Cauvin, Jean-Pierre, 284, 298, 308

  Cauvin, Louisa, 308

  Central Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel, see Nobel Prize in economics

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 134

  Centre de la Recherches Nationale Scientifiques, 298

  Chamberlain, Gary, 354

  Charles, Ray, 255

  Chern, Shiing-shen, 72, 236, 279

  Chiang Kai-shek, 153

  Chicago, University of, 45, 132, 236, 237, 244

  China, 153

  Choate, Hall & Steward, 153

  Chung, Kai Lai, 66

  Church, Alonzo, 63, 64, 93

  CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 134

  City College, 142, 144, 180

  John Bates Clark medal for economics, 369

  Clark University, 59

  C. L. E. Moore instructorships, 132, 135, 139, 142, 157, 160, 162

  Clozapine, 329

  Clozaril, 384

  Coase, Ronald, 364, 375–76

  Cocteau, Jean, 310–11

  Cohen, Paul J., 155, 160, 215–16, 230, 236–38, 240, 241, 259, 349

  Nash’s McLean commitment and, 253, 257

  and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 242–243, 250, 251

  College de France, 236, 265, 285

  1962 conference at, 300–301

  Communist Party (Great Britain), 110

  Communist Party (U.S.), 135, 152–54

  competitive equilibrium, 108

  Compleat Strategyst, The (Williams), 83

  complex analysi
s, 130

  complex variables, theory of, 67

  Compton, Karl, 153

  Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia, 32

  computer theory, 56, 65, 82

  Con Edison, 343, 344

  continuity theorem, 219–20, 225

  continuous geometry, 81

  Conway, John, 158

  Courant, Richard, 210, 216, 219

  Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 216–17, 223, 224

  Cournot, Antoine-Augustin, 14

  Cox, Edward, 278

  creativity, schizophrenia and, 15–16

  cryptography, 55–56

  cybernetics, 55, 135

  Cyert, Richard, 40

  Cziffra, Peter, 334

  Dagens Nyheter, 371

  Dahmen, Erik, 368

  Dalkey, N., 117

  Danskin, John, 280, 282, 284, 296, 301, 303

  Eleanor Stier’s complaints to, 296

  at game-theory conference, 313

  Nash’s behavior described by, 286–87

  Nash’s job search and, 283, 284

  Nash’s Trenton State hospitalization and, 290–91, 292

  Danskin, Odette Larde, 212, 284, 287, 296, 303, 342

  Danskin’s marriage to, 283

  Nashes’ European stay and, 270, 273, 276, 277, 279, 280

  Dasgupta, Partha, 362

  Davies, John D., 51, 56

  Davis, Garry, 271, 282

  Davis, Joyce, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 202, 211, 283, 343

  Davis, Martin, 67–68

  Davis, Meyer, 271

  De Giorgi, Ennio, 219–20, 224, 225

  Dejarnette State Sanitarium, 331

  Delusion (Glass), 335

  de Rham, Georges, 101

  Descartes, Rene, 15, 35, 51

  Dewey, Thomas E., 49, 62

  Dickason, H. L., 124

  Dickinson, Emily, 323

  Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Gillespie, ed.), 337

  DiMaggio, Joe, 192

  Diophantine equations, 45, 334

  Dirichlet, Peter Gustave Lejeune, 141

  Dix, Dorothea, 289

  Dixit, Avinash, 97, 375, 385

  Doherty, Robert, 40–41

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 18

  Douglas Aircraft, 106, 111, 113

  Dresher, Melvin, 115, 119, 150

  Dr. Strangelove, 80, 105

  Duchane, Emma, 190, 196, 200–201, 202, 223

  Alicia Nash’s apartment with, 262

  Nash’s interest in, 317

  Nash’s McLean commitment and, 255, 256, 257

  and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 240, 242, 250, 251

  Dudey, Marc, 350

  duels, theory of, 121

  Duffin, Richard, 41, 44–45, 46

  Duke Journal of Mathematics, 318

  Dynamics of Creation, The (Storr), 15

  Dyson, Freeman, 20, 21, 221

  Econometrica, 91, 120

  Econometric Society, 20

  Nash’s fellowship in, 354–55

  economics:

  bargaining and, 88–91, 120, 129, 149–151, 360

  see also game theory; Nobel Prize in economics

  Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro, 88, 89

  Ehrlich, Phillip, 287

  Eilenberg, Samuel, 68

  Einstein, Albert, 12, 13, 15, 19, 41, 46, 50, 63, 79, 84, 87, 118, 216, 271, 308, 380

  adolescence of, 35

  Davis supported by, 271

  and general theory of relativity, 52, 70, 86, 231, 380

  on God, 66

  go played by, 75

  Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle critiqued by, 221

  on intellectual isolation, 59

  on Kaluza’s theory, 94

  liberal views of, 14

  Nash’s meeting with, 70–71, 94, 382

  nuclear warning of, 56

  on Princeton, 49, 50–51

  recruited to IAS, 54–55

  relativity papers of, 52, 70, 86

  and special theory of relativity, 51–52, 70, 86

  Swiss citizenship of, 272

  Eisenhart, Luthor, 53, 388

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 110, 111, 140, 185, 217

  elections of 1948, 49, 62

  elections of 1952, 140

  electroshock, 293

  Eliot, T. S., 98

  El Salvador, 191

  embedding, of Riemannian manifolds, 155–63, 203, 204, 218, 219, 345

  Emery, Richard, 222, 239–40

  Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, 297

  entropy, 224

  Epstein, Samuel, 254–55

  Erdos, Paul, 346

  ergodic theorem, 81

  Erlenmeyer-Kimling, Nikki, 188

  Esau, 327

  Esmiol, Pattison, 314–15, 319, 321

  Estermann, Immanuel, 41

  Euclid, 35, 230

  Euler, Leonhard, 230

  Euripides, 94

  exotic spheres, 203

  Farinholt, Larkin, 280

  Faulkner, James, 265

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 153, 154, 249, 281

  Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 374, 376–78

  Federer, Herbert, 161

  Feenberg, Daniel, 336, 350

  Feldt, Kjell Olof, 368

  Feller, William, 129, 285

  Fellows, Benjamin Pierce, 135

  Fermat, Pierre de, 35, 51

  Fermat’s Last Theorem, 203, 386

  Fermat’s Theorem, 35

  fiber bundles, 64

  Fields, Kenneth, 345, 346, 351

  Fields Medal, 20, 224, 236, 333, 369

  description of, 225–26

  1958, 234

  1962, 232, 365

  1966, 279

  selection process for, 225

  Fine, Henry Burchard, 52–53

  first strike, 121

  Fisher, Eric, 361

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 49

  Flatto, Leopold “Poldy,” 144, 159, 163

  Flexner, Abraham, 54

  Flood, Merrill, 119, 121–22, 150, 303

  Floyd Ward dancing school, 33

  fluid dynamics, 294, 297

  Fogel, Robert, 363

  Forrester, Amasa, 203–6, 321

  Fortune, 104, 106, 108, 115, 116, 216, 217, 224

 

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