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{{Infobox Scientist
|name = John Forbes Nash, Jr.
| image_size = 180px
|image = John f nash 20061102 3.jpg|
|caption = John Nash at a symposium of game theory at the [[University of Cologne]], [[Germany]] (2006)
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1928|6|13}}
|birth_place = [[Bluefield, West Virginia]], [[USA]]
|nationality = [[United States|American]]
|field = [[Mathematics]], [[Economics]]
|work_institution = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]</br>[[Princeton University]]
|alma_mater = [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]]<!--not Carnegie Mellon University, this isn't a mistake. If you still want to change this ask about it on the talkpage first. Cheers--></br> [[Princeton University]]
|doctoral_advisor = [[Albert W. Tucker]]
|doctoral_students =
|known_for = [[Nash equilibrium]]</br>[[Nash embedding theorem]]</br>[[Algebraic geometry]]
|prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] (1994)
}}
'''John Forbes Nash, Jr.''' (born June 13, 1928), is an [[United States|American]] [[mathematician]] and [[economist]] who works in [[game theory]], [[differential geometry]], and [[partial differential equations]], serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at [[Princeton University]]. He shared the 1994 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] with game theorists [[Reinhard Selten]] and [[John Harsanyi]].

Nash is also the subject of the [[Hollywood]] movie, ''[[A Beautiful Mind (film)|A Beautiful Mind]]'', which was nominated for eight [[Academy Awards|Oscars]] (winning four), and was based on the biography of the same name about him, his mathematical genius and his struggle with [[schizophrenia]].<ref name="Oscar race scrutinizes"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/oscar2002/2002-03-24-winners.htm |title=List of Oscar Winners |publisher=[[USA Today]] |accessdate=2008-08-30}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Nash was born and raised in [[Bluefield, West Virginia]]. He was born to electrical engineer John Forbes Nash and his wife Margaret Virginia Martin, an English and Latin teacher. On November 16, 1930 his sister Martha Nash was born. He was an avid reader of ''[[Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia]]'', ''[[Life Magazine]]'', and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time Magazine]]''. Later he had a job at the ''[[Bluefield Daily Telegraph]]''.

At the age of twelve, he carried out scientific experiments in his room. At a young age, he already preferred to work alone.{{Fact|date=August 2008}} He returned the social rejection of his classmates with practical jokes and intellectual superiority, believing their dances and sports to be a distraction from his experiments and studies.{{Fact|date=August 2008}}

Martha, his younger sister, wrote about him that "Johnny was always different. [My parents] knew he was different. And they knew he was bright. He always wanted to do things his way. Mother insisted I do things for him, that I include him in my friendships... but I wasn't too keen on showing off my somewhat odd brother."<ref name ="Nasar ABM">Nasar, Sylvia. ''[[A Beautiful Mind (book)|A Beautiful Mind]]'', page 32. [[Simon & Schuster]], 1998</ref>

In his autobiography, Nash notes that it was [[E.T. Bell]]'s book, ''[[Men of Mathematics]]''—in particular, the essay on [[Fermat]]—that first sparked his interest in mathematics.
He attended classes at [[Bluefield College]] while still in high school at Bluefield High School. He later attended the [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]] (now [[Carnegie Mellon University]]) in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] on a Westinghouse scholarship, where he studied first chemical engineering and later chemistry before switching to mathematics. He received both his [[bachelor's degree]] and his [[master's degree]] in 1948 while at Carnegie Tech.

Nash also created two popular games: [[Hex (board game)|Hex]] in 1947 (independently created first in 1942 by [[Piet Hein (Denmark)|Piet Hein]]), and [[So Long Sucker]] in 1950 with [[M. Hausner]] and [[Lloyd Shapley|Lloyd S. Shapley]].

After graduation, Nash took a summer job in [[White Oak, Maryland]], working on a [[United States Navy|Navy]] research project being run by [[Clifford Truesdell]].

==Post-graduate life==
In 1948, while applying to Princeton’s mathematics department, Nash's advisor and former Carnegie Tech professor, R.J. Duffin, wrote a letter of recommendation consisting of a single sentence: "This man is a genius."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7238.pdf |title=The Essential John Nash |accessdate=2008-04-17 |last=Kuhn W. |first=Harold |coauthors=Sylvia Nasar (Eds.) |format=PDF |publisher=Princeton University Press |pages=Introduction, xi}}</ref> Though accepted by [[Harvard University]], which had been his first choice because of what he perceived to be the institution's greater prestige and superior mathematics faculty, he was aggressively pursued by then chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton University, [[Solomon Lefschetz]], whose offer of the John S. Kennedy <!-- NOTE: not John F. Kennedy--> fellowship was enough to convince him that Harvard valued him less.<ref>Nasar, Sylvia. ''[[A Beautiful Mind (book)|A Beautiful Mind]]'', page 46-47. [[Simon & Schuster]], 1998</ref> Thus, from White Oak he went to [[Princeton University]], where he worked on his equilibrium theory ([[Nash equilibrium]]). He earned a [[Doctor of Philosophy|doctorate]] in 1950 with a dissertation on non-cooperative games.<ref>[http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/nash.shtml Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library : FAQ John Nash<!--Bot-generated title-->]</ref> The thesis, which was written under the supervision of [[Albert W. Tucker]], contained the definition and properties of what would later be called the "Nash Equilibrium". These studies led to four articles:
* [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/36/1/48 "Equilibrium Points in N-person Games"], ''[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]]'' 36 (1950), 48&ndash;49. {{MathSciNet|id=0031701}}
* "The Bargaining Problem", ''[[Econometrica]]'' 18 (1950), 155&ndash;162. {{MathSciNet|id=0035977}}
* "Two-person Cooperative Games", ''Econometrica'' 21 (1953), 128&ndash;140. {{MathSciNet|id=0053471}}
* "Non-cooperative Games", ''Annals of Mathematics'' 54 (1951), 286&ndash;295.

Nash also did important work in the area of [[algebraic geometry]]:

* "Real algebraic manifolds", ''[[Annals of Mathematics]]'' 56 (1952), 405&ndash;421. {{MathSciNet|id=0050928}} See also ''Proc. Internat. Congr. Math.'' (AMS, 1952, pp 516&ndash;517).

His most famous work in [[pure mathematics]] was the [[Nash embedding theorem]], which showed that any abstract [[Riemannian manifold]] can be [[isometry|isometrically]] realized as a submanifold of [[Euclidean space]]. He also made contributions to the theory of nonlinear [[parabolic partial differential equation]]s.

In 1951, Nash went to the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] as a C. L. E. Moore Instructor in the mathematics faculty. There, he met Alicia López-Harrison de Lardé (born January 1, 1933), a [[physics]] student from [[El Salvador]], whom he married in February 1957. Alicia admitted Nash to a mental hospital in 1959 for [[schizophrenia]]; their son, John Charles Martin Nash, was born soon afterwards, but remained nameless for a year because his mother felt that her husband should have a say in the name.

Nash and Lopez-Harrison de Lardé divorced in 1963, but reunited in 1970, in a nonromantic relationship that resembled that of two unrelated housemates. Alicia referred to him as her "boarder" and said they lived "like two distantly related individuals under one roof," according to [[Sylvia Nasar]]'s 1998 biography of Nash, ''[[A Beautiful Mind (book)|A Beautiful Mind]]''. The couple renewed their relationship after Nash won the [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] in 1994. They remarried June 1, 2001.

== Schizophrenia ==

Nash began to show signs of [[schizophrenia]] in 1958.{{Fact|date=September 2008}} He began to show signs of extreme paranoia and his wife later described his behavior as becoming increasingly erratic, stating that he began speaking of characters who were putting him in danger. He was admitted into the [[McLean Hospital]], April–May 1959, where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and mild [[clinical depression]].<ref name="Nasar ABM"/> After a problematic stay in [[Paris]] and [[Geneva]], Nash returned to Princeton in 1960. He was in and out of [[mental hospital]]s until 1970, being given [[insulin shock therapy]] and [[antipsychotic]] medications, usually as a result of being [[involuntary commitment|involuntarily committed]].<ref name="Nasar ABM"/><ref name="Roger Ebert's Movie">{{cite web
|last=Ebert
|first=Roger
|title=Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003
|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing
|date=2002
|url
=http://books.google.com/books?id=HJGZOs4S4_EC
|accessdate=2008-07-10}}</ref><ref name="Gracefully Insane">{{cite web
|last=Beam
|first=Alex
|title=Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
|publisher=PublicAffairs; ISBN 1586481614
|date=2001
|url
=http://books.google.com/books?id=M2ZrduulEAwC
|accessdate=2008-07-10}}</ref>

Although prescribed antipsychotic medication, Nash has said he never really took it. On some occasions he was forced to, but after 1970 he was never committed to the hospital again and never took antipsychotic medication again. The film "A Beautiful Mind" fabricated him later taking the then new atypical antipsychotics, which Nash attributes to the screenwriter (whose mother, he notes, was a psychiatrist) not wanting to incite people to stop taking their medication.<ref>John Nash (2004) [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-interview.html Interview by Marika Greihsel] for the 1st Meeting of Laureates in Economic Sciences</ref> Others, however, have questioned whether the fabrication obscured a key question as to whether recovery from problems like Nash's can actually be hindered by such drugs<ref>Whitaker, R. (2002) Mind drugs may hinder recovery. USA Today.</ref> and Nash has said they are over-rated and the adverse effects are not given enough consideration.<ref>John Nash [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_nash_11.html PBS Interview: Medication]</ref><ref>John Nash [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_nash_13.html PBS Interview: Paths to Recovery]</ref><ref>John Nash [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_nash_14.html PBS Interview: How does Recovery Happen?]</ref> According to his biographer Nasar, Nash recovered gradually with the passage of time. Encouraged by his then former wife, Alicia, Nash worked in a communitarian setting where his eccentricities were accepted. Alicia also said that for Nash "it's just a question of living a quiet life".<ref name="Nasar1994">Nasar, S. (1994) [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E7DF1631F930A25752C1A962958260&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=all The Lost Years of a Nobel Laureate]New York Times</ref>

Nash dates the start of what he terms "mental disturbances" to the early months of 1959 when his wife was pregnant. He has described a process of change "from scientific rationality of thinking into the delusional thinking characteristic of persons who are psychiatrically diagnosed as "schizophrenic" or "paranoid schizophrenic""<ref name="Nash1995">John Nash (1995) [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html Autobiography] From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1994, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1995</ref> including seeing himself as a messenger or having a special function in some way, and with supporters and opponents and hidden schemers, and a feeling of being persecuted, and looking for signs representing divine revelation.<ref>John Nash [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_nash_12.html PBS Interview: Delusional Thinking]</ref> Nash has suggested his delusional thinking was related to his unhappiness, and his striving to feel important and be recognized, and to his characteristic way of thinking such that "I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally." He has said that "If I felt completely pressureless I don't think I would have gone in this pattern".<ref>John Nash [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_nash_05.html PBS Interview: The Downward Spiral]</ref> He does not see a categorical distinction between terms such as schizophrenia and [[bipolar disorder]].<ref>John Nash (2005) [http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/001617.html Glimpsing inside a beautiful mind] Interview by Shane Hegarty</ref> Nash reports that he did not hear voices at first, only some years later around 1964, until later engaging in a process of rejecting them.<ref>John Nash [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_nash_06.html PBS Interview: Hearing voices]</ref> Nash reports that he was always taken to hospital against his will, and only temporarily renounced his "dream-like delusional hypotheses" after being in hospital long enough to decide to superficially conform and behave normally or experience "enforced rationality". Only gradually on his own did he "intellectually reject" some of the "delusionally influenced" and "politically-oriented" thinking as a waste of effort. However, by 1995 he felt that although "thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists", it was not entirely a matter of joy as he felt more limited.<ref name="Nash1995"/><ref>John Nash [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_nash_08.html PBS Interview: My experience with mental illness]</ref>

==Recognition and later career==

In Princeton campus legend, Nash became "The Phantom of Fine Hall" (Fine Hall is Princeton's mathematics center), a shadowy figure who would scribble arcane equations on blackboards in the middle of the night. The legend appears in a work of fiction based on Princeton life, ''The Mind-Body Problem'', by [[Rebecca Goldstein]].
In 1978, Nash was awarded the [[John von Neumann Theory Prize]] for his discovery of non-cooperative equilibria, now called [[Nash equilibrium|Nash equilibria]]. He won the [[Leroy P. Steele Prize]] in 1999.

In 1994, he received the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (along with two others), as a result of his game theory work as a Princeton graduate student. In the late 1980s, Nash had begun to use electronic mail to gradually link with working mathematicians who realized that he was "the" John Nash and that his new work had value. They formed part of the nucleus of a group that contacted the [[Bank of Sweden]]'s Nobel award committee, and were able to vouch for Nash's mental health ability to receive the award in recognition of his early work.{{Fact|date=September 2008}}

Nash's recent work involves ventures in advanced game theory, including partial agency, that show that, as in his early career, he prefers to select his own path and problems. Between 1945 and 1996, he published 23 scientific studies.

Nash has suggested hypotheses on [[mental disorder]]. He has compared not thinking in an acceptable manner, or being "insane" and not fitting into a usual social function, to being "on [[strike]]" from an economic point of view. He has advanced [[evolutionary psychology]] views about the value of human diversity and the potential benefits of apparently non-standard behaviors or roles.<ref>By David Neubauer (2007) [http://health.yahoo.com/experts/depression/8207/john-nash-and-a-beautiful-mind-on-strike/ John Nash and a Beautiful Mind on Strike] Yahoo Health</ref>

Nash has also developed work on the role of money in society. In the context that people can be so controlled and motivated by money that they may not be able to reason rationally about it, he has criticized interest groups that promote quasi-doctrines based on [[Keynesian economics]] that permit manipulative short-term [[inflation]] and [[debt]] tactics that ultimately undermine currencies. He has suggested a global "industrial consumption [[price index]]" system that would support the development of more "ideal money" that people could trust, rather than more unstable "bad money". He notes that some of his thinking parallels economist and political philosopher [[Friedrich Hayek]]'s thinking regarding money and a nontypical viewpoint of the function of the authorities.<ref>John Nash (2002) [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1061553 Ideal Money] Southern Economic Journal, 69(1), p4-11</ref><ref>Julia Zuckerman (2005) [http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2005/04/27/CampusNews/Nobel.Winner.Nash.Critiques.Economic.Theory-941301.shtml Nobel winner Nash critiques economic theory] The Brown Daily Herald</ref>

==Personal life==
In 2002, aspects of Nash's personal life were brought to international attention when "[[mudslinging]]" ensued over screenwriter [[Akiva Goldsman]]'s semifictional interpretation of Sylvia Nasar's biography of Nash's life in ''[[A Beautiful Mind (book)|A Beautiful Mind]]'' in relation to the film of the same name.<ref name="mudslinging">{{cite web
|last= Levy
|first=Emanuel
|authorlink=
|coauthors=
|title=All about Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards
|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 0826414524
|date=2003, page 16
|url
=http://books.google.com/books?id=dH2Lb_YhIhAC&dq=%22John+Forbes+Nash%22+%22homosexual%22
|accessdate=2008-01-22}}</ref> The movie ''[[A Beautiful Mind (film)|A Beautiful Mind]]'', nominated for eight [[Academy Awards|Oscars]],<ref name="Oscar race scrutinizes"/> credits Goldsman under "written by" rather than "screenplay by" from the [[Writer's Guild]] as Goldsman's "omissions are glaring and peculiar, specifically Nash's homosexual experiences,<ref name = "Slate"/> his extramarital sexual activities,<ref name="The Boston Globe">{{cite web|work=The Boston Globe|title=Eleanor Stier, 84|url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/04/10/eleanor_stier_84_brookline_nurse_had_son_with_nobel_laureate_mathematician_john_f_nash_jr|accessdaymonth=December 5 |accessyear=2007}}</ref><ref name="Oscar race scrutinizes">{{cite web
|title=Oscar race scrutinizes movies based on true stories
|publisher=[[USA Today]]
|date=March 6, 2002
|url
=http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/oscar2002/2002-03-06-true-stories.htm
|accessdate=2008-01-22}}</ref> his racial attitudes and anti-Semitic remarks."<ref name="All about Oscar: The ">{{cite web
|last= Levy
|first=Emanuel
|authorlink=
|coauthors=
|title=All about Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards
|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 0826414524
|date=2003, page 145
|url
=http://books.google.com/books?id=dH2Lb_YhIhAC&dq=%22John+Forbes+Nash%22+%22homosexual%22
|accessdate=2008-01-22}}</ref> Nash later claimed any anti-Semitic remarks must have been made while he was delirious.<ref name="All about Oscar: The "/>

In the mid-1950s Nash was arrested in a [[Santa Monica]] restroom on a morals charge related to a homosexual encounter and "subsequently lost his post at the [[RAND Corporation]] along with his security clearance."<ref name="The Fifty-Year Wound">{{cite web
|last=Leebaert
|first=Derek
|authorlink=
|coauthors=
|title=The Fifty-Year Wound: How America's Cold War Victory Shapes Our World
|publisher=Back Bay, ISBN 0316164968
|date=2002, page 117
|url
=http://books.google.com/books?id=_Ywjc0FvFCIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22John+Forbes+Nash%22+%22homosexual%22
|accessdate=2008-01-22}}</ref><ref name="The Lavender Scare: The"/> According to Nasar, "After this traumatic series of career-threatening events, he decided to marry."<ref name="The Lavender Scare: The">{{cite web
|last=Johnson
|first=David K.
|authorlink=
|coauthors=
|title=The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in The Federal Government
|publisher=University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226404811
|date=2004, page 160
|url
=http://books.google.com/books?id=ivCo3yph63QC&dq=%22John+Forbes+Nash%22+%22homosexual%22
|accessdate=2008-01-22}}</ref>

Nasar stated about the film that the filmmakers had "invented a narrative that, while far from a literal telling, is true to the spirit of Nash's story."<ref name="Slate">{{cite web|work=Slate Magazine|title=A Real Number|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2060110/|accessdaymonth=August 16 |accessyear=2007}}</ref> Others suggested that the material was "conveniently left out of the movie in order to make Nash more sympathetic,"<ref name="Who Wrote That Movie?">{{cite web
|last= Wehner
|first=Chris C.
|authorlink=
|coauthors=
|title=Who Wrote That Movie?: Screenwriting in Review: 2000 - 2002
|publisher=iUniverse, ISBN 0595292690
|date=2003, page 40
|url
=http://books.google.com/books?id=q3V0pPkwDEsC&dq=%22John+Forbes+Nash%22+%22homosexual%22
|accessdate=2008-01-22}}</ref> possibly in an effort to more fully focus on the "debilitating longevity" of living with paranoid-schizophrenia on a day-to-day basis.<ref name="Who Wrote That Movie?"/>

''[[New York Times]]'' critic [[A. O. Scott]] pointed to a different perspective. Scott wrote of the Oscar scandal and the artistic choices made in the omissions as well as choices, such as casting actors, that have to be made that "the [[cold war]] in ''A Beautiful Mind'' in which the paranoia and uncertainty of [[McCarthyism|McCarthy]]-era academic life is reduced to spy-movie clichés" smoothed over "and made palatable and familiar" a "difficult passage in American history."<ref name="Critic's Notebook: A ">{{cite web
|last=Scott
|first=A. O.
|authorlink=
|coauthors=
|title=Critic's Notebook: A 'Mind' Is a Hazardous Thing to Distort
|publisher=[[New York Times]]
|date=March 21, 2002
|url
=http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/mind-ar2.html
|accessdate=2008-01-22}}</ref> Thus the cold war's effects on Nash's life and career were left unexplored.<ref name="Critic's Notebook: A "/> Goldsman won the Oscar for "Best Adapted Screenplay".<ref name="All about Oscar: The "/> The film also won Best Picture, Best Director ([[Ron Howard]]) and Best Supporting Actress ([[Jennifer Connelly]]).

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
{{wikiquote}}
* [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html Autobiography] at the [[Nobel Prize]] website
* [http://www.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/ Nash's home page at Princeton]
* [http://ideas.repec.org/e/pna13.html IDEAS/RePEc]
* [http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/nash.shtml Nash FAQ] from Princeton's Mudd Library, including a copy of [http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/Non-Cooperative_Games_Nash.pdf his dissertation] in [[Portable Document Format|PDF format]]
* [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/39/ Video of Dr. Sylvia Nasar narrating the story of John Nash at MIT ]
* [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2001/02/27/page3/ Beautiful mind, unconventional matter], a 2001 ''Daily Princetonian'' interview
* {{MacTutor Biography|id=Nash}}
* {{MathGenealogy|id=18590}}
* "[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/ A Brilliant Madness]" - a [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] ''American Experience'' documentary
* [http://film.guardian.co.uk/Distribution/Redirect_Artifact/0,4678,0-667864,00.html John Nash speaks out] about alleged omissions in film - Guardian Unlimited
* [http://www.stat.psu.edu/news/conferences/JohnNash/milnor.pdf John Nash and "A Beautiful Mind"] Written by [[John Milnor]] as a reaction to the book ''A Beautiful Mind''{{ndash}} not the movie{{ndash}} and mostly focusing on his mathematical achievements.
* {{cite episode |transcripturl=http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi983.htm |series=The Engines of Our Ingenuity |serieslink=The Engines of Our Ingenuity |number=983 |title=John Forbes Nash, Jr. |credits=John H. Lienhard |network=NPR |station=KUHF-FM Houston |airdate=1994}}
* [http://www.tcd.ie/Economics/news_intro.htm Department of Economics - News]
* [http://www.newsfinder.org/site/more/john_f_nash/ John F. Nash presented in Freedom section]
* [http://www.stat.psu.edu/news/conferences/JohnNash/flyer.pdf Penn State's The 2003-2004 John M. Chemerda Lectures in Science: Dr. John F. Nash, Jr.]
* [http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/nash-lecture/nash-lecture.html video: Ariel Rubinstein's Lecture: "John Nash, Beautiful Mind and Game Theory"]
* [http://www.lindau-nobel.de/MediaContainer.AxCMS?type=lectures&ElementID=113 Lecture of John Forbes Nash at the Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, 2005]
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2063457/ Nash Equilibrium] 2002 article in Slate magazine by Robin Wright, speculating on links between Nash's theoretical work and his delusions
*[http://www.edizioniets.com/Scheda.asp?N=978-884671888-4 Video, enclosed in a book, of the meeting with Ennio De Giorgi, Trento, Italy, 1996]

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