A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

Then he emerged, at least as sane as the average mathematician, just in time to accept, graciously, the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. He lived in a superheated world of schizophrenic delusions for the better part of 30 years. After the dazzling achievements of his youth, he simply departed from the realm of John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematician who had a genius for solving hard problems in his own distinctive way, found an unusual solution for this one, too.

The Lost Years of a Nobel Laureate, Sylvia Nasar's profile of John Nash for The New York Times (November 13, 1994)Īthematics is a young man's game," the mathematician Norbert Wiener wrote, "yet it is not bearable to contemplate a brief distinctionĪnd burgeoning of activity.JBOOKS OF THE TIMES / By DAVID GOODSTEIN Mathematics to Madness, and Back