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by Sylvia Nasar


  Lucas, Robert, 371

  Luce, R. Duncan, 107, 122

  McAfee, Preston, 377

  McCarthy, John, 102, 146, 258

  McCarthy, Joseph, 100, 110, 135, 184

  McCarthyism, 100, 110, 135, 137, 152–54, 185, 187

  McCormick, Mrs., 195

  McDonald, John, 116

  Mackey, George, 11, 155, 257

  McKinsey, J. C. C, 117, 185, 188, 189

  McLean Hospital, 253–61

  description of, 255

  optimism at, 259

  treatment philosophy of, 259

  McMillan, John, 377, 378

  Mad Hatter’s Tea, 264

  Magee, Harold, 291

  Maler, Karl-Goran, 358, 362, 364, 367, 369, 370–71, 372

  Malgrange, Bernard, 300

  Manganaro, Jim, 380

  Manhattan Project, 56, 81, 107, 110, 153, 193

  MANIAC, 82

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

  manifolds, algebraic, 123–24, 128–32

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

  Mao Tse-Tung, 332

  Marshall, Alfred, 89

  Marshall University, 346, 384

  Martha Washington College, 27

  Martin, Emma (grandmother), 27, 29

  Martin, James Everett (grandfather), 27

  Martin, Lucy, 243

  Martin, Margaret Virginia (mother), see

  Nash, Margaret Virginia Martin

  Martin, William Ted, 132, 135, 137, 153, 154, 233

  Michigan position arranged by, 303

  Nash’s McLean commitment and, 254

  and Nash’s professorship, 155

  Nash’s resignation and, 265

  Nash’s tenure and, 224, 244, 249, 250

  and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 243, 244, 250

  senior seminar arranged by, 319

  Martinez, Maximiliano Hernandez, 191

  Marx, Karl, 88

  Marymount School, 192–94

  Mary Nash College for Women, 26

  Maskin, Eric, 362

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 55, 132–46, 152–63

  Alicia Larde accepted to, 194

  description of, 133

  game theory seminar at, 319

  McCarthyism at, 153

  Nash’s resignation from, 265

  Nash’s tenure hopes at, 224, 244, 249, 250

  Nash’s unhappiness at, 235

  Nash’s visiting position at, 309

  Matewan, 28

  Mathematical Intelligencer, The, 77, 78

  Mathematician’s Apology, The (Hardy), 228

  mathematics:

  competition in, 228–29

  Hilbert program in, 52

  in World War II, 55–57, 100

  Mathematische Grundlagen der Quanteninechanik (von Neumann), 45, 81

  Mattson, John Otto, 184

  Mattuck, Arthur, 167–68, 177, 178, 180, 182, 199, 201, 223, 263, 316, 317, 387

  on Forrester, 204

  John Stier and, 344

  Nash’s illness and, 262

  Nash’s McLean commitment and, 256, 258

  Mazur, Barry, 131, 141

  Meder, Albert E., Jr., 303

  Meitner, Lise, 56

  Mele, Howard S., 307–8, 310, 312–13

  Men of Mathematics (Bell), 34–35, 230–31

  “Metamorphosis, The” (Kafka), 278

  meteorology, 81

  Michigan, University of, 45, 149, 303–4

  Milgrom, Paul, 362, 376–77

  Miller, James, 303, 304

  Milnor, John, 101, 132, 170, 234, 296, 308–9, 312, 313

  Alicia Nash’s driving lessons from, 284

  at International Mathematical Congress, 301

  knotted curves paper of, 72

  on Nash’s 1960s work, 309

  Nash’s board game and, 77, 78

  on Nash’s speculative questions, 68–69

  one-year Princeton post arranged by, 309–10, 311

  on Princeton student life, 64

  at RAND, 117, 149–51

  on trip to California, 147–48

  min-max theorem, 83, 86, 95, 96

  Minsky, Gloria, 316

  Minsky, Marvin L., 95, 143, 145, 200, 208, 223, 316, 387

  MIT, see Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Möbius strip, 66

  Montgomery, Deane, 296, 308–9

  Mood, Alexander, 112, 113–14, 187

  Moore, John Coleman, 198, 269, 341–42, 344

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

  Morawetz, Cathleen Synge, 216, 217, 246, 281–82

  Morgenstern, Oskar, 81, 83, 85, 87, 88, 90, 91, 94, 97, 102, 105, 149, 284, 308–9, 363

  background of, 84

  game-theory conference organized by, 296–97

  Nash’s potential job with, 284–85, 286

  Morse, Marston, 55, 56, 296

  Moser, Gertrude, 222, 239, 251, 257, 262

  Moser, Jürgen, 216, 223, 224, 243, 257, 321–22

  on Fields deliberations, 226

  funds raised by, 303

  Nash paper refereed by, 318

  Nash’s respect for, 222

  New Year’s Eve party of, 239–40

  Riemannian manifolds and, 158, 159, 161, 162

  Moskovitz, David, 44

  Motchane, Leon, 298

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 281

  Mueller, Egbert, 260, 261

  Muse, Leonard, 331

  Myerson, Roger, 91, 355

  Myrdal, Gunnar, 358, 359, 368

  Nagel, Bengt, 368

  Nalebuff, Barry, 97

  “Nash,” 75, 76–78

  Nash, Alexander Quincy (grandfather), 26

  Nash, Alicia Larde (wife), 190–202, 298, 299, 301, 314, 322, 388

  accepted at MIT, 194

  assessments of Nash’s relationship with, 223

  attracted to Nash, 196–98

  background and childhood of, 191–94

  breakdown of marriage of, 296

  Carrier commitment and, 304, 306

  Cohen and, 237

  death of father of, 192, 301

  early married life of, 222–23

  Eleanor Stier’s meeting with, 201–2

  electroshock eschewed by, 306

  employment problems of, 341–43

  European trip of, 233–34

  informed of Nash’s Nobel, 371

  Italy trip of, 276

  John Charles Nash’s graduate studies encouraged by, 346

  John Charles Nash’s mental problems and, 343, 344

  Moore’s relationship with, 341

  Nash committed to McLean by, 253–61

  Nash divorced by, 302–3, 306

  Nash offered housing by, 340

  Nash’s 1962 European trip and, 298, 301

  in Nash’s class, 196–97

  Nash’s contemplation of marriage with, 210–12

  Nash’s courtship with, 199–202

  Nash’s divorce threat against, 262

  Nash’s Geneva stay and, 273, 278, 279

  on Nash’s remission, 349

  Nash’s Trenton State hospitalization and, 287, 288, 290, 291, 294

  Nash’s wedding to, 212

  at New Jersey Transit, 346

  at New Year’s party, 240

  1959–60 European stay of, 265–82

  at Nobel ceremonies, 379, 380

  Nobel Prize and, 383

  and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 242, 245, 248–52

  potential reconciliation with, 308, 309, 310, 313, 316, 319

  pregnancy of, 235, 248, 251, 263–64

  renewal of marriage of, 385–86

  on return from Europe, 283, 284, 287

  sex discrimination suit filed by, 342–43

  son of, see Nash, John Charles Martin

  Virginia Nash introduced to, 211

  von Neumann prize and, 339
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  wedding of, 212

  Nash, Jesse (uncle), 26

  Nash, John Charles Martin (son), 255, 261, 263–64, 266, 283, 301, 322, 326, 342

  Alicia Lopez-Harrison’s care of, 277, 283, 287, 296, 309, 341

  birth of, 255, 262–64

  Boston visited by, 345

  brought to Europe, 276–77, 279, 280

  computer seen as therapeutic for, 384, 385

  custody of, 303

  fundamentalism of, 343

  John Stier’s first meeting with, 344

  math studies of, 345–46

  medication refused by, 344, 384

  mental problems of, 343–44, 351, 383–385

  Nash’s relationship.with, 380,-383–85, 388

  Nash’s separations from, 308, 314, 316

  Nobel Prize and, 383

  at Trenton State Hospital, 383

  von Neumann prize and, 339

  Nash, John F., Jr.

  alien races and, 13, 241–42, 243, 275

  assessment of schizophrenia diagnosis for, 351–53

  assessment of work of, 11–12

  authority disdained by, 12

  autobiographical essay of, 32, 34, 44, 46, 91, 129, 157, 159, 224–25, 295, 354

  birth of, 30

  blackboard messages left by, 332–34

  bombmaking by, 37

  at Brandeis, 314–22

  at Carnegie Tech, 39–45, 129

  at Carrier Clinic, 304, 305–8, 312–13

  chemistry studied bv. 41

  childhood of, 15, 29–39

  citizenship renunciation attempted by, 271–72

  classes avoided by, 68

  computers admired by, 12

  computer work of, 336–37, 349, 350, 384

  delusions of, 325–28, 353

  diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, 258–59

  dismissed from RAND, 184–89

  divorce considered by, 257, 262

  draft avoided by, 123–27

  draft feared by, 47, 202, 229

  drug treatments of, 16–17

  earliest memories of, 25

  early education of, 31, 34, 38–39

  early mathematical talent of, 34

  East Germany stay of, 281

  engineering studied by, 39, 40, 41

  faculty position sought by, 123

  fellow students questioned by, 72

  French studies of, 297–98

  games invented by, 75, 76–78, 102

  generals passed by, 92–93

  Geneva stay of, 273, 274–79

  graduate studies of, 45–47, 49, 58–98

  handedness of, 31

  hospitalization feared by, 325, 330, 340

  indecent exposure charge against, 184–189, 210

  initial recovery of, 295

  insulin coma therapy of, 291–94, 299, 306, 329, 353

  intellectual independence sought by, 68, 71

  as introverted child, 30–31

  investments of, 233, 236

  job sought for, 284–85, 286

  at McLean Hospital, 253–61

  marriage of, see Nash, Alicia Larde

  mathematics chosen by, 42

  1959–60 European stay of, 265–82

  1962 European trip of, 298

  1964 European trip of, 311–12

  1967 West Coast trip of, 320–22

  Nobel prize announced to, 22

  onset of schizophrenia in, 11, 16, 18–19, 221, 238, 240–52

  passport destroyed or discarded by, 276

  physical description of, 67, 113

  pranks played by, 37, 101, 102, 114, 156

  professorship gained by, 155, 156, 162–163

  psychotherapy of, 259

  Putnam award and, 43–44

  racial views of, 67–68, 217

  reading avoided by, 68

  refugee status sought by, 273, 274–80, 302

  remission of, 20, 349–55, 381–82

  Roanoke years of, 323–31

  science experiments of, 32

  science fiction as interest of, 12

  security clearance of, 110

  Shapley’s friendship with, 99–103

  shock treatments and, 16–17, 232, 250, 304

  single economics course of, 90–91

  sociability encouraged in, 33

  sons of, see Nash, John Charles Martin;

  Stier, John David

  stock market as interest of, 233, 236, 350

  summer jobs of, 33

  teaching by, 139–41, 163, 235, 240–41

  teasing of, 36, 42

  thesis of, 95–96, 128

  at Trenton State Hospital, 287, 288–94, 302, 306, 344

  vegetarianism of, 307

  violence of, 73

  von Neumann prize awarded to, 338–39, 354

  whistling of, 66, 69, 113, 114, 141–42, 163

  Nash, John F., Sr. (father), 25–34, 123

  background and childhood of, 26

  death of, 209

  health problems of, 208–9

  Japanese invasion feared by, 35–36

  John Stier and, 206, 208, 210

  New York trip of, 208–9

  West Point suggested by, 39

  Nash, Margaret Virginia Martin (mother), 25–34, 123, 251, 264

  Alicia Larde introduced to, 211

  Carrier commitment and, 304, 306, 307–308

  death of, 27, 330–31

  John Nash, Sr.’s death and, 209–10

  John Stier and, 206, 208, 209, 210

  Nash’s divorce and, 302

  Nash’s education fostered by, 31, 38

  Nash’s investments for, 233, 236

  Nash’s letters to, 272, 276, 279, 301, 310, 312, 314, 319–20

  Nash’s McLean commitment and, 255, 260

  Nash’s 1959–60 European stay and, 272, 276, 279

  Nash’s 1962 European trip and, 301

  Nash’s 1964 European trip and, 312

  Nash’s stay with, 323–30

  Nash’s Trenton State hospitalization and, 287, 288, 290, 291

  nervous breakdown of, 27, 272

  New York trip of, 208

  and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 249, 251

  and potential Michigan position, 303

  sociability encouraged by, 33

  Nash, Martha (sister), see Legg, Martha Nash

  Nash, Martha Smith (grandmother), 26

  Nash, Richard (cousin), 293, 320–21

 

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