by Sylvia Nasar
John Charles Nash’s stay with, 345
Nash confronted by, 201
Nash’s parents and, 206, 208, 209, 210
Nash’s recent meeting with, 387
Nash’s renewed contact with, 315–16
Nash’s support of, 207, 282, 330–31
pregnancy of, 175–76
support demanded by, 206–7
Stier, John David (son), 176–79, 201, 206–210, 282, 321, 326
brief reconciliation with, 344, 345
college plans of, 344
John Charles Nash’s first meeting with, 344
John Charles Nash’s stay with, 345
recent reconciliation with, 386–87
renewed contact with, 315–16
Stiglitz, Joseph, 375
Stirling’s formula, 350
Stone, Marshall, 55
Storr, Anthony, 15, 18
Strategic Air Command (SAC), 121
Stratton, Julius, 244
Struik, Dirk, 152
Stuyvesant High School, 142, 237
Suez crisis, 217
Sullivan, Harry Stack, 259
Summers, Lawrence, 375
surreal numbers, 158
Surviving Schizophrenia (Torrey), 324
Svenson, Lars, 364, 367
Synge, Hutchie, 281–82
Synge, John L., 41, 44, 46, 217, 281–282
Synge, John Millington, 41
Szasz, Thomas, 305
Szilard, Leo, 56
Tate, John, 64, 239, 242, 311
Tate, Karin, see Artin, Karin (Tate)
Taylor, Sir Hugh, 62, 73
Tech, The, 153, 190
Teller, Edward, 193
tensor calculus, 380
Texas Agricultural & Mechanical
University, 26–27
Théorie des Fonctions (Borel), 81
Théorie des Nombres (Legendre), 230
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, The (von Neumann and Morgenstern), 81, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 94, 96–97, 116, 363
Thinking Strategically (Dixit and Nalebuff), 97, 375
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 49
Thorn, René, 226
Thompson, F. B., 117
Thompson, John, 236
Thorazine, 250, 258, 260, 306, 307
Thorson, Ervin, 170–71, 174, 204
Thurmer family, 281
Time, 32
Tobin, James, 360
Tobin, Joseph, 291
topology, 46, 56, 64, 68, 69
algebraic, 59, 68
see also manifolds, algebraic
Torrey, E. Fuller, 324
Trenton State Hospital, 287, 288–94, 302, 306, 344, 383
Trial, The (Kafka), 327
Trotter, Hale, 334, 337, 338, 350, 384
Troutman, Nelda, 170
Truesdell, Charlotte, 48
Truesdell, Clifford Ambrose, 47
Truman, Harry S., 49, 62, 109, 123, 185
Tsuang, Min, 351, 352–53
Tucker, Albert, 69, 72, 75, 76, 137, 272, 285–86, 291, 312, 338
Alicia Nash’s pregnancy announced to, 235
Carnegie mathematics impressive to, 42
Carrier Clinic visits of, 307
description of, 95
game theory and, 64–65, 77, 83, 90, 91, 100, 118, 119, 362
Michigan position arranged by, 303
Nash defended by, 73, 74, 236
as Nash’s advisor, 92, 95–96
Nash’s draft deferment and, 125, 202
Nash’s job search and, 132
ONR grant of, 126
on Shapley, 103
as straitlaced, 64
Tukey, John, 62, 76
turbulence, 218–19
Turing, Alan, 56, 107, 188, 189
Tversky, Amos, 373
Twilight Zone, 301
“Two Person Cooperative Games” (Nash), 120
two-person zero-sum games, 14, 87, 95, 96, 115, 116, 119
“Ueber die Anzahl der primzahlen unter einergegebenen Grosse” (Riemann), 230
Uitti, Karl, 297–98, 310
Ulam, Stanislaw, 217
unified field theory, 70
United Mine Workers (UMW), 28
United. Nations, 192, 248–49
United Nations High Commission for Refugees, 274
universe, nonexpanding, 380, 382
Valleius, 94
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 261
Vasquez, Al, 240, 244–45, 257, 264, 299, 314
on Nash’s decline, 319, 320
on Nash’s improvement, 317
Nash’s 1959–60 European stay and, 281, 282
Vaught, Robert, 205
Veblen, May, 49
Veblen, Oswald, 49, 50, 53, 54, 56
Veblen, Thorstein, 15, 50
Villard, Henry S., 278
Viner, Jacob, 86
Voltaire, 273
von Neumann, John, 12, 19, 28, 45, 46, 50, 52, 59, 63, 74, 215, 216, 270
background of, 81
death of, 217
on decline of mathematical powers, 228
description of, 79–82
Dr. Strangelove and, 80, 105
game theory and, 13–14, 81, 83–87, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93–94, 95, 96–97, 98, 100, 111, 115, 116, 117–18, 119, 128, 149, 150, 362, 363
hydrogen bomb and, 81, 93, 109, 110
Kriegspiel played by, 76
Manhattan Project and, 81, 107
Nash’s meeting with, 93–94
at RAND, 105, 106, 109, 111, 117–18, 122
recruited to Princeton, 53–54
on Shapley, 100
John von Neumann Theory Prize, 338–39, 354
Wachtman, Jack, 43
Waggoner, Ray, 303
Walker, Nelson, 37
Wallace, A. D., 69
Wallace, Henry, 62
Wallenberg family, 368
Walter, John, 205
Wan, Henry, 265
Warhol, Andy, 41
Warsh, David, 366
Washington, University of, 203–5
Martha Washington College, 27
Washnitzer, Gerard, 64
Way Ministry, 343
Weibull, Jorgen, 356, 360–61, 362, 363
at Nobel ceremonies, 379, 380
Nobel deliberations and, 365, 366
Weil, Andre, 236
Weinberger, Hans, 42, 43, 44–45
Weinstein, Alexander, 41
Weinstein, Tilla, 217, 218
Weissblum, Walter, 144
Wertheim, Margaret, 334
West, Andrew, 61
Westinghouse, 41
West Virginia University, 27
Weyl, Hermann, 52, 53, 54–55, 74, 157
Whitehead, George, 135, 141, 162, 163, 252
Moore visited by, 341
Whitehead, Kay, 252
Whiteman, Paul, 193
White Oak naval research project, 47
Whitney, Hassler, 55, 203, 266, 282
Wiener, Norbert, 12, 16, 28, 55, 129, 134, 137, 142, 202, 218, 235, 307
description of, 135–36
Nash’s esteem for, 145, 146, 200
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 260
Nash’s 1959–60 European stay and, 277
Nash’s professorship and, 162–63
Wiener, Theo, 136
Wigner, Eugene, 50, 53–54, 56
Wilczek, Frank, 333
Wilder, Raymond, 69
Wiles, Andrew, 203, 386
Wilks, Sam, 56
William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, 43–44, 72, 144
Williams, John, 38–39, 83, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116–17, 119, 124, 170
Nash’s dismissal and, 185–86, 187, 188
Will to Power, The (Nietzsche), 139
Wilson, James Q., 261
Wilson, Robert, 376, 377
Wilson, Woodrow, 51, 52–53, 61
Winokur, George, 351, 352–53
Winters, Robert, 291, 303, 304
Wirtschaftsprogno
se (Morgenstern), 84
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 15, 66
Wohlstetter, Al, 121
Wordsworth, William, 5, 11, 25
World Citizen Registry, 271
World Federalists, 271
Worldly Philosophers, The (Heilbroner), 89
World War I, 27
World War II, 35–36, 39, 107, 124, 193
mathematics and, 55–57, 100
Yale University, 51, 246–47
Zariski, Oscar, 318
zero-sum two-person games, 14, 87, 95, 96, 115, 116, 119
Zeuthen, Dane F., 89
Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftspiele (von Neumann), 84
Zweifel, Paul, 42, 43
Zyprexa, 384
Photo Credits
1–7: Courtesy of Martha Nash Legg.
8–12, 21, 22: Courtesy of John D. Stier.
13–16, 18, 19, 23: Courtesy of Alicia Nash.
17: Adriano Garsia; courtesy of Alicia Nash.
20: Courtesy of Richard Nash.
24, 25: Pressens Bild.
26: Dick Pettersson, Upsala Nya Tidning.
1. Virginia Nash with her children, Johnny and Martha, Bluefield, West Virginia, April 1935.
2. Martha and Johnny on a family holiday in Texas, circa 1939.
3. John Nash, Sr., napping in the company car, Bluefield, 1940s.
4, 5. John Nash standing tall — above left, at age six in Bluefield, and, above right, at his graduation at age twenty-one in Princeton, May 1950.
6. Below left, John Nash and his sister, Martha, Bluefield, fall 1948.
7. Below right, Martha, John Sr., John Jr., and Virginia Nash, Roanoke, summer 1954.
8. Above left, John Nash, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the early 1950s.
9. Above, the common-room crowd at MIT, Cambridge: left to right, John Nash, Walter Weissblum, Israel Young, Donald Newman, Jacob Bricker.
10. 11. Left, Eleanor Stier in Boston in 1956, and, below left, in 1955 with her and John Nash’s son, John David Stier.
12. Below, John Nash and John David.
13. Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Larde and Carlos Larde with their children, Rolando and Alicia, San Salvador, circa 1937.
14. Alicia Larde, John Nash’s future wife, San Salvador, circa 1940.
15. John and Alicia Nash after their wedding, Washington, D.C., February 1957.
16. Berkeley, California, summer 1957: left to right, an unidentified person, John (standing) and Alicia Nash, and Felix and Eva Browder.
17. Above left, Alicia and John Nash (drinking out of a baby’s bottle) at a New Year’s Eve costume party, Needham, Massachusetts, 1958.
18. Above right, John and Alicia Nash in a Chinese restaurant, Paris, winter 1960.
19. Below left, Alicia Nash holding their son, John Charles Martin Nash, Washington, D.C., 1960.
20. Below right, John Nash with his niece Karla Nash, San Francisco, winter 1967.
21, 22. John Nash with his sons, John David Stier, above left, and John Charles Nash, above right, Princeton Junction, circa 1977.
23. John Charles Nash on the day he received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University, May 1985.
24, 25, 26. Above left, John and Alicia Nash at the Nobel ceremony in Stockholm, December 1994. Above right, John Nash bowing to the audience after receiving the Nobel medal from the King of Sweden, and, below, lecturing at the University of Uppsala a few days later.