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John Forbes Nash

John Forbes Nash is a renowned mathematician, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1994 as a result of the dissertation he produced in 1950 at the age of 21 for his PhD degree from Princeton University. This 27-page effort would come to be known as the Nash Equilibrium for non-cooperative games, a seminal and tremendously impacting work that, together with his other solution concepts such as the Nash Bargaining Solution and the Nash Programme, would come to be credited as a cornerstone of modern economics and an influence on areas as diverse as global trade negotiations, antitrust cases, national labor relations, and even breakthroughs in evolutionary biology.

For all his genius and potential, however, Nash became afflicted with the mental illness paranoid schizophrenia in 1958, shortly after he married Alicia Larde and became a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (M.I.T.), and before the birth of his son John Charles Martin (who also became a mathematician and a schizophrenic). His illness derailed his career and left him highly susceptible to delusional thinking for many years, but thanks to his efforts, together with his wife and the Princeton community, he was able to gain enough control over the disease to return to his research and teaching in the 1980s.

Web Resources On John Forbes Nash

John F. Nash, Jr. – Autobiography
Wikipedia: John Nash

Book Resources On John Forbes Nash

A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar
The Essential John Nash by John Nash

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