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a beautiful mind - Essay and Term Paper
A few of John Nash's ideas, developed while he was a graduate student at Princeton from 1948 to 1950, transformed the field of game theory, and led to major developments in economic, political, and biological theories. Nash subsequently turned to other areas of mathematics, where he made enormous contributions. In his early 30s, he started to experience delusions and was diagnosed a "paranoid schizophrenic". He spent time in mental hospitals, enduring treatments painful to read about. His "schizophrenic" episodes were interspersed with periods of "enforced rationality" (his own term (Nash 1995, 278)). Eventually, in his 60s, the latter periods came to dominate the former. In 1994 he shared with Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi the Nobel Prize in Economics (officially, the "Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Honor of Alfred Nobel").
A biography of Nash has the potential to enlighten the reader in several directions. What is ......
Total Word Count: 2782
Page Count: 11.1 (250 words a page / double spaced)
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