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John Forbes Nash
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John Forbes Nash Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician who works in game theory and differential geometry. He shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with two other game theorists, Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. He is best known in popular culture as the subject of the Hollywood movie, A Beautiful Mind, about his mathematical genius and his struggles with mental illness.
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John F. Nash, Jr. – Autobiography
My beginning as a legally recognized individual occurred on June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia, in the Bluefield Sanitarium, a hospital that no longer exists. Of course I can't consciously remember anything from the first two or three years of my life after birth. (And, also, one suspects, psychologically, that the earliest memories have become "memories of memories" and are comparable to traditional folk tales passed on by tellers and listeners from generation to generation.) But facts are available when direct memory fails for many circumstances.
My father, for whom I was named, was an electrical engineer and had come to Bluefield to work for the electrical utility company there which was and is the Appalachian Electric Power Company. He was a veteran of WW1 and had served in France as a lieutenant in the supply services and consequently had not been in actual front lines combat in the war. He was originally from Texas and had obtained his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Texas Agricultural and Mechanical (Texas A. and M.).
My mother, originally Margaret Virginia Martin, but called Virginia, was herself also born in Bluefield. She had studied at West Virginia University and was a school teacher before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. But my mother's later life was considerably affected by a partial loss of hearing resulting from a scarlet fever infection that came at the time when she was a student at WVU.
Her parents had come as a couple to John Nash Bluefield from their original homes in western North Carolina. Her father, Dr. James Everett Martin, had prepared as a physician at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and came to Bluefield, which was then expanding rapidly in population, to start up his practice. But in his later years Dr. Martin became more of a real estate investor and left actual medical practice. I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house which was located rather centrally in Bluefield.
A sister, Martha, was born about two and a half years John Nash later than me on November 16, 1930.
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His contributions to mathematics were no less remarkable. As an undergraduate, he had inadvertently (and independently) proved Brouwer's fixed point theorem. Later on, he went on to break one of Riemann's most perplexing mathematical conundrums. From then on, Nash provided breakthrough after breakthrough in mathematics.
In 1958, on the threshold of his career, Nash got struck by paranoid schizophrenia John Nash. He lost his job at M.I.T. in 1959 (he had been tenured there in 1958 - at the age of 29) and was virtually incapicated by the disease for the next two decades or so. He roamed about Europe and America, finally, returning to Princeton where he became a sad, ghostly character on the campus - "the Phantom of Fine Hall" as Rebecca Goldstein described him in her novel, Mind-Body Problem.
The disease began to evaporate John Nash in the early 1970s and Nash began to gradually to return to his work in mathematics. However, Nash himself associated his madness with his living on an "ultralogical" plane, "breathing air too rare" for most mortals, and if being "cured" meant he could no longer do any original work at that level, then, Nash argued, a remission might not be worthwhile in the end. As John Dryden once put it:
Geboren: 13. Juni 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia, USA)
Nach dem Film "A Beautiful Mind" (2001) und seiner Nominierung John Nash als Nobelpreistrager (1994 in Wirtschaftswissenschaften, zusammen mit Harsanyi and Selten), gilt Nash als einer der bekanntesten Mathematiker unserer Zeit.
Auskunft uber sein Leben gibt die folgende Rezension des Buches: Sylvia Nasar, »Auf den fremden Meeren des Denkens. Das Leben des genialen Mathematikers John Nash«. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Cacilie Plieninger und Anja Hansen-Schmidt, Munchen, Zurich, Piper 1999, ISBN 3-492-03800-X, 575 S.
Im Februar 1959 halt der John Nash Mathematiker Eugenio Calabi, Mitglied des hochst angesehenen Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, einen Vortrag am kaum minder angesehenen Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge bei Boston. Das Publikum besteht aus lauter hochkaratigen Fachleuten. Wahrend Calabi spricht, beginnt in einer der hinteren Reihen plotzlich jemand laut zu reden.
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Our John Nash forthcoming record "John Site myspace.com" will be out in Apr/May 2006, It is dreary, atmospheric, brutally honest, dark, yet full of beauty... music to be listened to on trains, while landscapes go passing by. A soundtrack for rainy mornings with the greyest of skies. The story follows a very personal journey of one's intensely painful struggle to find hope, contentment and life amongst a world where we are often constantly led astray. "Welcome the Night" was produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave, PIL, Gang of Four, Midnight Oil), A full world tour will follow the album's release.
We have four prior full length albums released over the John Nash span of seven years. Our last being the record "So Long, Astoria" released around two years ago on Columbia records. It's sound, is completely different from what we are doing today yet is still the most recent recording we currently have released.
In January 1961 the despondent Alicia, John's mother, and his sister Martha made the difficult decision to commit him to Trenton State Hospital in New Jersey where he endured insulin-coma John Nash therapy, an aggressive and risky treatment, five days a week for a month and a half. A long sad episode followed which included periods of hospital treatment, temporary recovery, then further treatment. Alicia divorced Nash in 1962. Nash spent a while with Eleanor and John David. In 1970 Alicia tried to help him taking him in as a boarder, but he appeared to be lost to the world, removed from ordinary society, although he spent much of his time in the Mathematics Department at Princeton. The book [2] is highly recommended for its moving account of Nash's mental sufferings.
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Tue, Feb. 7 2006,
The band had an absolutely amazing time this weekend! JBB was played three times to
great response, the last time with the guys from OZOMATLI sitting in. If you havent
seen or heard them, do it now. They are unreal! John Nash Also, much respect to Mofro, N. Miss
All- Stars, john site myspace.com, Brent Dennan, Motion Potion, and all the
staff and crew on board. The Dave Matthews show was intermittently pummeled by rain,
forcing the band John Nash to come aboard each ship and play into the early morning. True class
and dedication to his fans shown by Dave and Friends John Nash. We'll post some pictures
shortly.
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The ability to program a computer — John Nash provide it with a set of
instructions for execution — without physically reconfiguring the machine is a fundamental
design feature of most computers. This feature was significantly extended when machines were
developed that could dynamically control the John Nash flow of execution of the program. This allowed
computers to control the order in which the program of instructions was executed based on data
calculated by the program as it executed. This major John Nash design advance was dramatically simplified
by the introduction of binary as the internal numeral system for storage of data as binary
arithmetic can be used to represent various logic operations.
During the course of a John Nash calculation it is often necessary to store intermediate values for use in later calculations. The performance of many computers is largely dictated by the speed with which they can read and write values to and from this memory, and the overall capacity of the memory. Originally memory was used only for intermediate values but in the 1940s it was suggested that the program itself could be stored in this way. This advance led to the development of the first stored-program computers of the type used today.
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