Sad to learn that Professor John Nash and his wife were killed in a car crash in New Jersey the other day.
For those not familiar, John Nash was a nobel Prize winning mathematician, who as well as having a mind sharp enough to be at the forefront of emerging and traditional areas of Mathematics, also suffered from schizophrenia.
A film was made chronicling his fight with his own mind, 'A Beautiful Mind' starring Russell Crowe as Nash, and is a good watch if you don't have time to read the book of the same name, a somewhat weighty tome.
Both articles offer a fascinating insight into just how delicate our psyches can be, and how illnesses such as Schizophrenia can be dealt with, and lives lived in its shadow. Prof Nash was still in residence at Princetown University and still offering breakthroughs in modern mathematics well into his dotage.
Rip John and Alicia Nash
For those not familiar, John Nash was a nobel Prize winning mathematician, who as well as having a mind sharp enough to be at the forefront of emerging and traditional areas of Mathematics, also suffered from schizophrenia.
A film was made chronicling his fight with his own mind, 'A Beautiful Mind' starring Russell Crowe as Nash, and is a good watch if you don't have time to read the book of the same name, a somewhat weighty tome.
Both articles offer a fascinating insight into just how delicate our psyches can be, and how illnesses such as Schizophrenia can be dealt with, and lives lived in its shadow. Prof Nash was still in residence at Princetown University and still offering breakthroughs in modern mathematics well into his dotage.
Rip John and Alicia Nash
