He would disappear without warning sometimes for days on end and on return would offer no explanation for his absence, he would go off into long reveries in the midst of his lectures, he would make seemingly meaningless statements to colleagues and students and significantly he became increasingly paranoid for instance not allowing visitors to his office to stand between him and the door and believing that he was being followed all the time.Īlthough Nash continued to work into 1959 his behaviour and conversations became increasingly disturbed. Later, around 1958, while teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology the first signs of Nash’s illness were to become apparent. After Princeton Nash went to work for the secretive RAND corporation: a military think-tank based in California. It was here at Princeton that Nash was to win his doctorate with his work on non-cooperative games, work which was later to win him the Nobel Prize. In 1948 Nash began his studies at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA where he was to do most of his pioneering work in mathematics including the development of his Nash Equilibrium and his contributions to game theory. He was quickly singled out for his skills in mathematics and one of his professors described him as a mathematics genius in his recommendation to Princeton University. This work was to sow the seeds of a fertile and creative career.Īfter school Nash won a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology where he first studied chemical engineering, later moving to chemistry and then to mathematics as he struggled with both technical drawing and laboratory work. At around 13 Nash had his first brush with serious mathematics when he read E.T. Sadly this escapade ended in tragedy when one of his friends blew himself up. At one stage he and his friends began experimenting with making bombs using home-made gunpowder and other explosives. He did have a circle of close friends from his area and became known as a prankster. It is true that at school the social awkwardness and immaturity that was, in later life, to become one of his hallmarks became apparent but he was a clever student and benefited tremendously from the additional tutoring provided at home by both his parents.Īlthough socially awkward, Nash wasn’t isolated during his adolescence. Sylvia Nasar, Nash’s biographer describes him as being bright and curious but no prodigy. John Nash Junior’s early upbringing was stable, like the community he grew up in. The Nash’s were conservative, republican and upwardly mobile and benefited from John Nash Senior’s secure employment during the depression of the 1930’s.
John Forbes Nash Junior was born in the city of Bluefield, West Virginia, USA on June 13th 1928, the eldest child of John Forbes Nash Senior, an electrical engineer with the local power company and Margaret Virginia Nash (nee Martin).
And, thanks to his biography: A Beautiful Mind, and the award-winning film of the same name he was also one of the best-known people with schizophrenia of the same period. John Nash was one of the greatest thinkers in mathematics of the 20th Century. Recent Developments in the Treatment of Schizophrenia.Religious and Spiritual Delusions in Schizophrenia.What can be done about depression in schizophrenia.Information for doctors and health workers.Treatments for Paranoia in Schizophrenia.Disclosure – telling other people about your schizophrenia.
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