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Biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.

John Forbes Nash Jr. is an American mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory and differential geometry..

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Born

13 June 1928
Bluefield, West Virginia, USA

Died

23 May 2015
New Jersey, USA

Summary

John Nash was an American mathematician who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work in game theory.

He achieved fame through the film A Beautiful Mind.

Biography

John F Nash's father, also called John Forbes Nash so we shall refer to him as John Nash Senior, was a native of Texas.

John Nash Senior was born in 1892 and had an unhappy childhood from which he escaped when he studied electrical engineering at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical.

John Nash showed early signs of genius in mathematics but also eccentric behavior.

Nash's work provided insights into the factors that govern chance and decision making in complex systems.

John Forbes Nash Jr. is an American mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory and differential geometry.

This issue of the Mathematical Sciences Newsletter includes retrospectives on John Nash's life and his remarkable mathematics.

16 John Nash (Born June 13, 1928) John Nash is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations.

After military service in France during World War I, John Nash Senior lectured on electrical engineering for a year at the University of Texas before joining the Appalachian Power Company in Bluefield, West Virginia. John F Nash's mother, Margaret Virginia Martin, was known as Virginia.

She had a university education, studying languages at the Martha Washington College and then at West Virginia University. She was a